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Topic: Somali Pirates Make Two Mistakes

they screwed with Americans, and they left them alive

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Re: Somali Pirates Make Two Mistakes

Cool.

I'd like the Navy to get in there and blow the crap out of all pirates and their ships. Raids against land bases are hard to justify if they are on soverign soil (Im sure you disagree Chris). But yup, blow the pirates sky-high when they are on the water. Good training and target practise.

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Re: Somali Pirates Make Two Mistakes

I take that back, they can sometimes be helpful!

http://www.theonion.com/content/from_print/somali_pirates_tow_guy_with

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Re: Somali Pirates Make Two Mistakes

on reflection, if  they had either screwed wtih them and killed them all, they'd be in a better situation

or, if they hadn't screwed with them and killed them

or, if they hadn't screwed with them and not killed them

so I guess it's basically 1 mistake no matter how you slice it, and bad planning of the one mistake, because at several points on the decision loop they could have chosen a better mistake

pirates need sigma six

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Re: Somali Pirates Make Two Mistakes

Yea, but I don't think they chose the life of piracy because law and med school bored them.

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Re: Somali Pirates Make Two Mistakes

mmmm ask zoz but I believe law school IS a commitment to a life of piracy

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Re: Somali Pirates Make Two Mistakes

1st mistake was taking over a ship with food on it tongue  - hardly gonna get millions for that big_smile

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> [TI] Primo wrote:

> Yea, but I don't think they chose the life of piracy because law and med school bored them.

No, it must be because $80million (that they got for the return of those Ukranian tanks and Saudi oil tanker that they captured) is just not quite enough to drill a few wells, buy a few veges and get the white paint for their picket fence.

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Betcha a quarter Obama flies ther to apologize to the pirates

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Re: Somali Pirates Make Two Mistakes

I hope that the Americain destroyer that is en-route fires on any vessel leaving Somalia.
Their country may have fallen, but that is not a reason for turning to piracy.

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I don't know, Americans should just deal with the pirates they have at home; mechanics, lawyers, and doctors.

Realistically though they'll never get rid of all the pirates and even if they do more will just fill in the void.  Although it would be an opportunity for Obama to add to the list of never ending wars Americans are so proud of. Poverty, drugs, terror, piracy, and probably a lot more I'm too lazy to look up.

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Ah, the war on drugs...
... on an unrelated matter; I just bought some "Morrocan Mindf*cker".

Ah, the war on poverty...
... on an unrelated matter; The homeless hostel I live in has just had cable TV installed.

Ah, the war on terror...
... Did I ever tell you about my ex-wife?

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Re: Somali Pirates Make Two Mistakes

you forgot the war of Iraq...

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Re: Somali Pirates Make Two Mistakes

Saddam didn't do his paperwork properly

game over

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Re: Somali Pirates Make Two Mistakes

If it were me out there on the Alabama, and I heard my captain was ransomed for $2 million, I'd take my 3 pals hostage for the bargain price of $5 million

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Re: Somali Pirates Make Two Mistakes

Hmmm

Nothing generic or 9-5 about holding Americans for ransom

/eyes BW

Hmmmm

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Re: Somali Pirates Make Two Mistakes

Usually terrorists just shoot Americans. Its unfortunate and sad, but at
least in this situation the Captain will more then likely live.

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Re: Somali Pirates Make Two Mistakes

We should arm our merchant mariners again! I think the local museum still has a couple of 36 pounders lying around.

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Re: Somali Pirates Make Two Mistakes

Arming the boats is a bad idea, because it encourages more gun fights...

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Re: Somali Pirates Make Two Mistakes

Gunfights > orderly kidnappings

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Re: Somali Pirates Make Two Mistakes

Gunfights > knife fights

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Nice troll skoe, It almost got me.

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Re: Somali Pirates Make Two Mistakes

I'm gettin' real good at trolling big_smile.


But seriously arming the boats (mind you, we aren't talking about soldiers either
we are talking about sailors) is a bad idea because it basically enforces the idea
that the pirates need to board forcefully. When they do that they are going to be
alot more hostile, and would lead to the deaths of many more civilians.

Not to mention the fact that sunken ships are an environmental disaster waiting to
happen...

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Re: Somali Pirates Make Two Mistakes

That's like saying if you fight to stop me from buttraping you, other people might get hurt and it will motivate me to come back with more force to buttrape you.

What if every guy who went to sea to be a pirate, died sooner or later. You really think they'd work at being able to wipe out the navy?

Always err on the side of having balls

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Re: Somali Pirates Make Two Mistakes

Huh?

Please re-phrase your last post. It made 0 sense.

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