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Africa Subsaharan
Somali pirates hold summer clearance on ransoms and hostages.
2011-05-26
Someone's kid must be doing a business course on-line or something -- they appear to have discovered the twin ideas of holding costs and lost opportunity costs... Or else the increasing violence of the navies' responses has planted the idea of cashing out and getting into a safer line of work.
Posted by:Besoeker

#2  anon1 - Neither Haradhere or Eyl are in Puntland. They're both in lower Somalia.

The way to put an end to piracy is to make it unprofitable. If too many pirates end up dead, if their families and friends are blown to rubble, and their villages obliterated from the Earth, they'll find a safer line of work.

All the law enforcement in the world hasn't stopped the illegal drug industry. Blowing apart about half of Mexico would put an end to it in a heartbeat, if you choose the right half. Robert Heinlein had a great treatise on the use of force: force has changed more than any other single factor in history. Used correctly, it can be a force for good. Used indiscriminately, and it becomes a call for greater force. Arabs/Africans/Muslims believe in strong horse/weak horse philosophy. The United State has yet to show it's willing to be the strong horse, no matter who gets hurt. Until it does, we'll be nickeled and dimed to death in the Muddled East and central Africa. The first time we can show we will make Genghis Khan look like a piker, all that will stop.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2011-05-26 18:24  

#1  greetings all

hello OP didn't get a chance to respond to yesterday where you mentioned levelling Eyl and Haradheere as a solution.

Only solution is on land by supporting Farole. If you destroy Eyl and Haradeere there are millions more starving young 14 year olds willing to jump in a skiff with an AK 47 and hold up a merchant ship.

Only way to stop it is to create order on land.

Puntland has a functioning court system you know, and has hundreds of pirates locked in its jails. But Farole can't do much on a yearly budget of less than $20 million.

Blame the UN for this one. They are totaly to blame for the chaos of somalia.

split it into 3 then you can manage somalia.
Posted by: anon1   2011-05-26 09:33  

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