J. Michael Waller over at PoliticalWarfare.org writes in the above-mentioned post,
Piracy on the high seas has been a military issue for the United States since the founding of the Republic. President Thomas Jefferson waged our first foreign war to fight Islamic pirates in the Mediterranean.
So why is President Barack Obama dithering full-speed ahead, with the FBI impounding the pirated Maersk Alabama as a “crime scene”? Why doesn’t the Navy have standing orders to kill any pirate who harasses an American ship or crewman on the high seas?
Islamist pirates preying on innocent shipping off Somalia operate under a defined command-and-control system, often through tribal elders on land.
Good questions that need to be asked since the most powerful Navy in the history of the world is now in a stand-off with a bunch of criminals.
To read the rest of Dr. Waller’s post, click here.
