Pirates.....

This whole piracy thing has me baffled. I actually heard a guy on CNN defending these pirates!! Apparently illegal fishing off of Somalia has turned the country to piracy. It could not possibly be the fact that there is no government, infrastructure, law.... no its the big industrialized countries fault.
Solutions:
1. allow merchant vessels to be armed. Then when one of these little skiffs come puttering up alongside the ship, you blow it up, pirates and all.

2. stop paying the ransoms, it only encourages more piracy.

3. Any navy vessel that sights a pirate ship may fire on and sink said pirate ship.


I am glad the President ordered the rescue of the American Captain. I guess there is a war on piracy now?

do you guys have any solutions to piracy?