Originally Posted By: ekpolk
Well, how 'bout this "non-BITOG-only" idea: bomb the living feces out of them -- both at sea and at their home-bases. We now have aircraft and ordnance combinations that allow our pilots and bombardiers to put weapons through particular windows on a house.
Time to put the technology to good use. . .
Well, I would guess there probably more boats and poor Somali fishermen with no other options to survive than multi million dollar bombs that the U.S. navy would use...
I understand the piracy problem started when Somalia couldn't defend its territoral waters and industrial fishing boats from spain, china, india, that cleaned out the fishery. So now you have 1000's of guys with boats and no fish, so its no surprise some of them have turned to piracy.
A bunch of somali immigrants in Canada are actually going back and trying to get their society functioning again. I'm sure they could use a few million in cash, more than in bomb form.
Or maybe use the expensive bombs on the industrial trawlers, probably would be the best aid money spent in africa...