All these countries who have made money by permitting tankers to fly their flag for a small fee now need to stand up and defend these ships who fly their flag.

That isn't going to happen. Liberian and Panama aren't going to do a darn thing about these pirates. One, because they don't care, and number two, because they don't have the navy to do it. There are only three, maybe four countries on this earth that have the ability to stop the pirates (China, Russia, Great Britain and the USA). Russia and China have unproven navy's. Russia’s navy went down the tubes after the cold war, and has only recently shown some signs of coming back to life. China hasn’t fought any sort of major naval conflict in over 200 years. No one else has any sort of sizable navy. And why would any of those countries do anything about the pirates if their ships aren't involved? The UN says they have a "presence" there. Historically, the UN has been hesitant to fire anything more than a smoke bomb, much less a bullet. Simply put, the UN doesn't have the political will to stop the pirates. No one really seems to be doing much, and I don't think that is going to change. These pirates number in the thousands, and sinking one little dhow isn't going to change anything. The US Navy has the ability to take care of this, but much like the UN, I doubt they (or the US as a whole) has the will to do anything about this. Sort term solution: Hire private security firms to man and protect the ships – paid for by the ship owners. Long term solution: Kill every single pirate you find, then sink there boats. No one seems to be prosecuting the pirates for their crimes, so who would care if someone killed them?

That is not the issue. The issue is the moribund doctrine of rivalist Islam nurtured by one famous Saudi and his number two, an obscure heap of theoretical nonesense in Egypt.

Now, this fellow, a bonehead, in my opinion, wants to engage Obama in a 'dialogue' of the deaf, calling Obama " a house negro," renting the moribund ideology of the equally clueless Malcolm X, who later converted to Sunni Islam.

Point number one: the terrorist in Egypt should know that he is not preaching on behalf of "Allah" tout court, but on behalf of HIS "Allah", 'a variable' dependent on one's version of "Islam."

The ignoramus is out of touch: the base of the rhetoric of Al-Q is effaced: let them, the Arab countries of the Middle East and beyond, present to the world a Black President. That will be the day when Shaitan submits to Allah's dominion.

History has shut the mouths of the ideologues of rivalist Islam. Full disclosure: my sypathies lie with what some scholars call "High Islam," which, I think, is far more theoretically interesting than the naive Protestant inspired doctrinal rhetoric of the rivalists.

Anyway, that's theory. Try one false move on the US during the reign of the " house negro," and the "house of murderers in Al-Q" will get a similie of Allah's JAHANAMA on earth.

Obama: "We will destroy you." Doctor of death, see you in Afghanistan, where your untergehen will commence seasonably. And, please stop using the name of Islam and Allah, for in your mouth, they mean nothing to all REASONABLE MUSLIMS. MURDERER!

As for Malcolm X, Farakhan and J. Jackson, the Train of "Change We Can" declares: old school demagogues completely out of touch with the facts of life in 21st century America.

Ditto for the murderer of muslims and non-muslims in Egypt.

Mr. Doctor, listen here: Obama ain't no Bush: he will haunt you down in Egypt or Afghanistan or, nay Somalia.

War cries from Obamaland.

I suppose the chickens have come home to roost. The House of Saud, what a house? It bred the so-called radical Islamist BL and his Egyptian epigoni, the Egyptian Doctor of Death, who thinks he can sucker Barack into a dialogue with the heap doctrinal trash called AQ.

AQ, I heard the other day, is "radical." Radical, my toe; these are a bunch of ignoramuses who have hijacked elite Islam (for once Bush is right), the Islam sans mediators, which is the only medicine against RIVIVALIST ISLAM, the epigoni of protestant clap trap doctrinal theorizing, which is so common among the "lower classes" in the Islamic world.

Who sired these rivivalists? Why, the House of Saud, which is itself another rivivalist movement of another century.

I suppose you reap what you sow.

Cheers.

They should put a strike force on a number of vessels and sail them up and down this coast until the prates make their move. Once the pirates attack,.......kill them and sink the boats they were in. If it's far from the coast, do a radar sweep of the area and board any support vessels in the area. Kill them and sink that boat too. Keep on doing this until problem goes away.

I am always amused when someone continents away from a problem has the perfect, simplistic solution that career experts on the scene have clearly overlooked. Go after the pirates and sink their ships!!!! Why didn't I think of that?

I wonder why BlackWater is hiring retired SEALS, SAS and French Foreighn Legion troopers as ride alongs..

Where was the world when the Somali coast was the dumping place of all hazardous waste from the nuclear and chemical factories of the west? Where was the west when the Somali coast was the no-man's-land where Spanish,French,Taiwanese,Singaporean,Italian, and all others were fishing illegally and the poor Somali fishermen were left for nothing? Where was the world when every country was arming a warlord for their own intrest and every major power was working against the stability of Somalia? No matter how many warships are deployed,the piracy will continue unless the world faces the facts and works the stabilization of the country. And it will affect every home!. Things may get worse and other dangerous situations may appear if we dont act immediately.