its about time, now lets finish it.

The Navy SEALS were able to end the standoff and rescue Captain Richard Phillips. Its reported that the snipers fired from the fantail of the ship killing 3 of the pirates and the 4th was detained.

All i can say is its about time, this played out longer than it should. we have the strongest military in the world. Why in the hell did it take 5 days to finally rescue him? In my opinion its time to put the Navy, the Marines, and as much as i hate to say it our overworked Special Operations Community to work and end this pirate threat. they are holding several ships, and around 230 people hostage, for us to let this continue is a grave mistake. Every day we let the continue without taking the fight to them is a mistake. They become more bold with every day cause they are getting paid off and getting away with it. Its time to stop playing nice and teach these fools a lesson.

And a small history lesson, this is not the first time we have had this problem. In the 1800's we had the same problem the pirates were raiding our ships and holding our people hostage, and we paid them off for quite some time until we finally had enough and attacked. Any marine will tell you of Lt. Pressley Obanon (forgive me if i spelled that name wrong) and his assault on the barbery coast.

Apparently its time to go in there again and deal with the situation. I Think if we had some people willing to make the hard decision it wouldn't be a problem. Lets send in the Spec Ops people to retake what they have taken and free the hostages. Then before any ship enters that area we put atleast a platoon of heavily armed infantry on the boat and they serve as guards while the boat is in the "pirate area" then when the pirates try and take the boat they are killed or captured (of course the soldiers will follow the laws of war) but the ships should be concidered a part of their respective nations soil and defended as such.

I for one would have no problem getting trained up for and executing that type of mission. so lets get off of this thought that if we talk to them and work with them we can get our people back safely. That doesnt work all that will happen is they will continue to capture ships and take hostages. Now is the time for action, we have shown them what a small ammount of what we are capable of. Its time to take the gloves and deal with these type of terrorists the old fashion way brutally. That is what they will understand.

We have the strongest military in the world, lets use it to "protect the innocent, and punish the deserving!!!" (all my fellow Tomahawks will know what i mean)