Mighty_Girl:
If you kill enough people all of humanity’s problems could be solved.
I like that approach, how about you start solving your own problems at home first. :dubious:
What is up with some of you people?
To be fair, I think he is saying that trying to stop the piracy by military force would require a massacre of comparable magnitude, and/or occupying Somalia. He said over inthis thread ( post 18 ) :
I’m a pretty law and order kind of guy, but I don’t view these modern day pirates as the “next great evil.” They’re a cost of doing business, piracy has always been a cost of doing business at sea, period.
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I’m not saying we ignore the tried and true tools to use against pirates (engaging them, stopping them, and prosecuting them whenever possible) but this isn’t a problem that requires an invasion by any means.
Lets also keep in mind the alternative, the only way the Barbary Pirates were ever truly stopped is when France invaded and killed a third of the population (of course many of those killed were not pirates.) I don’t see us going that route in the 21st century.