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Canadian navy wards off another Somali pirate attack (Roundup)
Apr 19, 2009, 16:20 GMT
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You can't combat piracy if your policy is to release the pirates as soon as you catch them. Tomorrow they will go and hijack another ship. NATO has proved itself useless in this game. The only way to effectivly combat piracy is to blow the pirates' boats out of the water.
Exactly.
As a Canadian citizen, I was appalled to hear the pirates were released. Perhaps one of our human rights commission representatives was on board and didn't want to offend them.
Something many folks may have missed is that several small sailboats have also been hijacked. These boats have little of commercial value for the pirates except the lives of the crew.
What is the difference here between these actions and, say, hijacking an airplane? Why aren't we treating these pirates as the hijackers they are?
Indeed, from my perspective, these actions look remarkably like terrorism.
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