A Failure of Civilization
The piracy threat to commercial shipping in the Gulf of Aden has not only not been addressed, it has gotten worse. The pirates have now widened the area of threat and are increasing their capabilities:
U.K.: Insurers Widen Somali Pirate Threat Zone
December 21, 2010
The United Kingdom’s marine insurance industry has widened the area of waterways deemed high-risk for Somali pirate attacks, industry officials said Dec. 21, Reuters reported. According to Neil Roberts, a senior technical executive with the Lloyd’s Market Association (LMA), the pirates have large mother ships that can support operations much farther off the coast of Somalia than previously thought. The Joint War Committee, which groups LMA members with representatives from the London insurance industry, added the Gulf of Aden and a wider swath of the Indian Ocean to the list of waterways considered high-risk.
We are several years into this resurgence of a scourge that we in the civilized world know very well how to defeat and yet we are unable to deal with it effectively. In simple terms, it is because we are a bunch of namby-pamby, feminized, over-intellectualized twits. First, we very somberly declare in scholarly fashion that the root causes of piracy are too large to address immediately, that there needs to be an effective, politically stable government in Somalia that can give its citizens entry to the global economy and hope for a better future yadayadayada. Yeah well, keep waiting for the Great Pumpkin Linus. Second, the world's navies are deployed in the Gulf of Aden as a bunch of traffic cops to ostensibly protect ships where the threat is greatest. So the pirates simply move to strike where the navies are not. Duh. Finally, when we do capture some pirates, they are routinely released. Arghhhhh! What the hell are we thinking?!?! Send these damn shitheads to a watery grave at the bottom of the flippin' ocean and I guarantee the piracy threat will abate.
U.K.: Insurers Widen Somali Pirate Threat Zone
December 21, 2010
The United Kingdom’s marine insurance industry has widened the area of waterways deemed high-risk for Somali pirate attacks, industry officials said Dec. 21, Reuters reported. According to Neil Roberts, a senior technical executive with the Lloyd’s Market Association (LMA), the pirates have large mother ships that can support operations much farther off the coast of Somalia than previously thought. The Joint War Committee, which groups LMA members with representatives from the London insurance industry, added the Gulf of Aden and a wider swath of the Indian Ocean to the list of waterways considered high-risk.
We are several years into this resurgence of a scourge that we in the civilized world know very well how to defeat and yet we are unable to deal with it effectively. In simple terms, it is because we are a bunch of namby-pamby, feminized, over-intellectualized twits. First, we very somberly declare in scholarly fashion that the root causes of piracy are too large to address immediately, that there needs to be an effective, politically stable government in Somalia that can give its citizens entry to the global economy and hope for a better future yadayadayada. Yeah well, keep waiting for the Great Pumpkin Linus. Second, the world's navies are deployed in the Gulf of Aden as a bunch of traffic cops to ostensibly protect ships where the threat is greatest. So the pirates simply move to strike where the navies are not. Duh. Finally, when we do capture some pirates, they are routinely released. Arghhhhh! What the hell are we thinking?!?! Send these damn shitheads to a watery grave at the bottom of the flippin' ocean and I guarantee the piracy threat will abate.
posted by Donny Baseball at 10:51 AM
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