Pirates on the Seas

I don’t suppose you can just wait while your cargo rots and your seamen cannot sail through. Imagine if this were  the era of Blackbeard where pirates did canvas coastlines and held on to their amassed treasures enough to sink with a cargo load full. I would not go as far as to say, violence requires more of the same. That usually causes an upward spiral. All one has to do is look how Hamas has managed to infiltrate Gaza after Lebanon, continuing rocket strikes, making the Israelis look levil, and then crying for their spilt blood when retaliation occurs,  as if if to make their cause for eliminating the Jewish state more legitimate. The pirates too now acclaim that the shooting of their men will enrage them further. It isn’t as if they could care of relief work done to ship food supplies to other starving peoples. It isn’t as if they were disrupting hugely important shipping route either. They are pirates bound by the seven seas in their law.

Perhaps the way to combat the upsurge of this activity is to retaliate using the same tactics that would disrupt their own means of communications. Foiling their efforts might even wake a few up to change their ideas of piracy. Clearly world nations should adopt more secure measures of getting at the route of this, discovering what Somalia has which nurtures this kind of activity.

Luckily a Vermont captain was released from his captors. A Canadian nurse was recently held captive in Afghanistan and now other are being helf captive. I think alarm bells should go off not just to work for their relief and think of punishment but to think of how to offer an reliable alternative to those people bent on maiming world trade as we know it and world relief efforts. Perhaps by even getting them to survey their own shipping lanes against other violators.