For the "mighty naval power" that is the United States to be held as impotent hostages to a band of rag tag thugs in Somalia is the ultimate national embarrassment. A nation that fails to defend its citizens on the
high seas forfeits its status as a great power.
The annals of naval warfare offer many examples of tactics that have
eliminated the problem. All begin with a demand that all hostages be freed at once, unharmed and in good condition. If this demand is ignored, or if the hostages are threatened, a series of punitive measures are begun.
First, the coast of the offending nation is mined and completely blockaded. Vessels may enter or leave only with armed escort, for innocent purposes such as fishing.
Second, any vessel discovered outside the mined area that does not have
proper clearance will be evacuated and sunk. The crew may choose
to go down with the ship.
Third, if there is still no compliance, the systematic destruction of all
vessels in ports and on the coast, will begin, including the fishing fleet.
The disruption to the food supply will exert great pressure on whomever is in charge.
Fourth, a series of small land excursions could be carried out as possible
rescue and punishment.
We shall soon see if the U. S. has lost its will to remain a world power!
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According to news reports today the U.S. is, again, taking the path of least political resistance.
How very unfortunate!
If, as has been reported, the U.S. decides to wait for agreement by the U.N. for an approved or endorsed action the wait will be very long for the simple reason that Europeans rely heavily on oil supplies from northern Africa and Saudi Arabia. If and when the U.N. agrees to permit strategic efforts in Libya the U.S. will be almost certainly, unilateral in it's actions and will suffer drastic losses because the Libyans have become the world's most notorious mercenaries during the past 40-plus years.
In 1986 we successfully contained Gaddafi by bombing his palace in Benghazi (eastern Libya) and most of the rest of that town but it had the effect of sending him into the underworld to work almost exclusively, with foreign mercenary want-to-be's training them to be ruthless and rewarding them for the most inhumane tactics they could invent. For the past 20-some years we and almost everyone else in the world ignored the issue but now it falls to the U.S. again, to right the terrible atrocities being committed against humanity in that region. We US? Because, by and large Libyan oil does not fuel our expensive cars.
Enough!
This tyrant has gathered his billions and obviously does not care about even his own countrymen. Why must we wait for approval from others? This "bad puppy" is completely insane and causes devastating injury to impoverished, but still hopeful countrymen.
This wart on the ass of humanity needs to be removed at the earliest opportunity.
King Abdullah and the autocratic kingdom of Saudi Arabia will likely be the next target of major civil unrest.
While the Saudi royal family has shown great generosity by paying each of the kingdom's citizens a stipend to keep them quiet there is little doubt that a few hundred riyal will satisfy them over the short term.
The royal family has absorbed every profit from each barrel of oil until only recently. Now the royals are hoping the quick infusion of a tiny fraction of the nation's profits will keep the populace happy but what about next month? Next year? Next generation?
Though the royal family has been rather generous at various times in the past they don't appear to recognize that the peons in every society determine state struggle with poverty everyday of their life. A few, unanticipated riyal will obviously make them very happy but everyone wonders, "What will be available tomorrow or next year?"
When civil unrest finally happens in Saudi Arabia the entire world will have to take notice because those financial tendrils permeate nearly every culture around the world.
If the U.S. truly believes in civil and human rights this the "Camelot moment" for us to show our true stripes. There is an entire subcontinent for us to focus on in the immediate future. - Then we will need to take a closer, more sincere look at nations in the Far East.
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