From the news source whose name shall not be uttered ....From what I gather the pirates were not under attack, they just decided to kill the hostages. They were on the phone talking to negotiators minutes before and had said that they would kill the hostages if they were attacked. Maybe one had an itchy finger and it all blew up after that?
And mere minutes after they were all shot, American forces stormed their boat.
Now 13 pirates are going to jail in an American prison, I assume. Maybe they thought they were going to a Somali prison and would get out ten minutes after the Americans turned their backs?
So they traded 13 lives for four, AFAIAC.
Truly too stupid to breathe, any way you cut it.
Why is it again that we can't just shoot holes in the pirates' boats on sight?
Oh, that's right. I forgot about all the international outrage whenever the Russians or someone kills them and chums the water with their worthless corpses.
The only tried and true way to deal with pirates is to kill them on sight. It's the only thing that worked then, and it will be the only thing that works now. I can't wait for us to get past our denial. Pirates are not something that you can regulate out of existance. Pirates break all the rules. That's why they are called pirates. They have already thrown civilization to the wind. Somalia isn't a country. Nobody cares about the pirates except maybe their own mothers. And Al Quaeda, maybe.
If we have an administration with any salt at all, the gloves have to come off. We've been pretty restrained so far. No more.