{"id":402,"date":"2009-01-02T18:50:41","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T18:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=402"},"modified":"2009-01-02T18:50:41","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T18:50:41","slug":"pirates_again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=402","title":{"rendered":"Pirates Again?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yahoo News<\/a> is reporting that a Greek cruise ship fended off an attack by pirates in the Gulf of Aden with water hoses and the help of some EU aircraft scrambled from a nearby group of EU ships.  Pirates in three speedboats armed with guns and rocket-propelled grenades<\/span> twice tried to board the Greek-flagged Kriti Episkopi.  I guess the thing that bothers me about this is that the pirates sailed off into the sunset.  In another case, a French warship on Thursday captured a boat with eight Somali pirates<\/span> as they were preparing to board a Panamanian ship.  This was revealed in a statement released late Thursday by the office of French President Nicolas Sarkozy.  The crew of the “PM L’Her” dispatch boat seized weapons and munitions on board. The French navy<\/span> will hand over the men to Somali authorities. <\/p>\n

I’m really not sure handing the pirates over to the Somali authorities is the answer.  I think that the way to end piracy in this area is to make it unprofitable and dangerous for the pirates, rather than for ships in the area.  I really don’t like to idea of arming cruise ships with rocket propelled grenades, but at least we need to give them armed escorts in dangerous areas.  I don’t think water hoses would have worked for very long without the arrival of air and sea support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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