the US has the capability to solve this problem fairly readily, but lacks the fortitude in our leadership to do it the way it should be done. all the Prez has to do is to tell his military commanders to fix it, and they will and can.
For the most part these are not US flagged ships. The one time that I recall a US flagged ship being hijacked, the US did send Navy Seals in. Several hijackers were killed and the hostages rescued. I don’t think it is our government’s responsibilty to incur the cost of policing the Indian Ocean, when it isn’t our ships that are being hijacked.
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the US has the capability to solve this problem fairly readily, but lacks the fortitude in our leadership to do it the way it should be done. all the Prez has to do is to tell his military commanders to fix it, and they will and can.
For the most part these are not US flagged ships. The one time that I recall a US flagged ship being hijacked, the US did send Navy Seals in. Several hijackers were killed and the hostages rescued. I don’t think it is our government’s responsibilty to incur the cost of policing the Indian Ocean, when it isn’t our ships that are being hijacked.