Somali Pirates Too PC for Hollywood and Obama
by John Scott LewinskiIn a dangerous and dramatic throwback to eras long thought dead, pirates are once again actively threatening lives and property of honest seafaring men along the African coast.
The situation presents a perfect opportunity for:
A. Hollywood to produce an exciting action/adventure film based on real world events.
B. The American president to make a rousing and pointed statement on his firm support of the rule of international law on the open seas and how he’ll defend the safety of his citizens if endangered anywhere on Earth.
I predict you have a better chance of being abducted by said pirates at your local McDonald’s than you have of seeing either of the above actually occur. Why? Both Hollywood and Obama are held hostage by the same childish, simple-minded worldview that curses all hard left art and politics (a refrain I’ve sung before and will chirp about again): “The strong are always bad. The weak are always good.”
You might say, “Wait! Aren’t armed pirates the bullies here? Aren’t they ’strong’ movie villains?” They can’t be because, no matter how many unarmed merchant ships are taken at the point of their assault rifles, no producer in Hollywood is likely to make a movie with African villains. It’s not politically correct to pose ethnic minorities as antagonists — even when they’re not really ethnic minorities because the story would take place in Africa.
So, you’re not likely to see Bruce Willis lead a team of Navy SEALs onto the deck of a rusting freighter full of cutthroats unless you can find a way to cast wealthy western European and American men as said pirates. Actually, I might be on to a pitch there: “Bruce Willis takes on a team of American CEOs (fired from their jobs by the Obama Administration) who turn to a life of piracy off Somalia.” I’ll call my agent.
Meanwhile, in the real world, Obama literally has nothing to say about the Somali pirates taking an American captain prisoner. It’s a no-win scenario for the president to open his rarely noiseless mouth on this crisis. After all, those pirates are most likely poor and frightened. It wouldn’t be enlightened and compassionate to tell the captors to let the American citizen and his crew go lest Navy snipers unburden their skulls of their brains.
Even worse, they probably don’t speak English and have never been inspired by one of the President’s speeches. Would they let the crewmen go free in return for copies of Obama’s autobiography and this month’s edition of Oprah’s magazine? No. That could backfire. They might doubt their own ability to take more innocent men hostage at gun point until they realize, “Yes, we can!”
The bottom line is, if you want Obama to take forceful, vengeful action, you’re going to have to find some rich Americans he can punish for their rude success. And, if you want Hollywood to make a modern pirate movie, find a Somali warlord Ralph Fiennes can play.
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You've missed the part where they're all the spawn of islam. Just like Obama.
It's only funny because its true.
It's time to make an Indiana Jones movie… set in Iraq. That would be a twist. The Nazi's, racists, and CEO's (as well as most conservatives) are usually the bad guys in movies these days. I remember when movies were made that actually made Hitler look like the "bad guy". It's time to address what is bad as "bad".
It's time to make an Indiana Jones movie… set in Iraq. That would be a twist. The Nazi's, racists, and CEO's (as well as most conservatives) are usually the bad guys in movies these days. I remember when movies were made that actually made Hitler look like the "bad guy". It's time to address what is bad as "bad".
I actually like the fact that Obama is keeping his trap shut on this one. It would only exacerbate the situation.
[...] John Scott Lewinski at Big Hollywood has related thoughts: In a dangerous and dramatic throwback to eras long thought dead, pirates are once again actively threatening lives and property of honest seafaring men along the African coast. [...]
I for one am flabbergasted that ANYONE from the US is held hostage by these clowns. Blow their butts out of the water, send it the Seals, if we don't expect more for terrorist, opportunist and pirates around the world!
I for one am flabbergasted that ANYONE from the US is held hostage by these clowns. Blow their butts out of the water, send it the Seals, if we don't expect more for terrorist, opportunist and pirates around the world!
Something tells me that if the captain was an Israeli, this would be over by now and the captain would be free. The longer this goes on, the worse it is going to get. This is terrorism, and terrorists around the world are going to watch for Obama's reaction.
The Somali pirates have been quite active in the past year, but until now have not attacked a ship flying an American flag. Wonder why?
What did you expect from the coward Obama? He's a Muslim……that's right people…..A MUSLIM !!!
He was born in Kenya……didn't graduate from Harvard……in fact he hardly attended…..and he's a worthless, anti-American MUSLIM !!!
Obama is the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on this country.
To be a Democrat is to be mentally diseased.
I dunno, I think Hollywood MIGHT be willing to make a Somali Pirate Movie. They did make a movie version of Blackhawk Down.
Of course we lost that battle, so that might be why Hollywood did it.
===Something tells me that if the captain was an Israeli, this would be over by now and the captain would be free. ===
And the pirates would be dead.
All I can say is this man hit the truth completely.
Hollywood is bollywood and o is the biggest mistake ever.
What? — you'd rather see Olde man McCain or Sally Jesse Palin shoot down some third world bad guys?
If Boy George Bush were president ( as if he ever won an election, that is…) — he'd be seen on some yacht, wearing his cup-jock and wetsuit — with a headline proclaiming "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED". — when in fact, he'd be on some other boat, on another sea, adrift with no plan — like the economy, and public, he deserted.
And of course, just like bin Laden – Bush couldn't catch or find his own shadow !
Why do you think Obama should bother with some pirates on a boat …when the US has decades of pirates living on the USS Reagan-nomics Globalizaton Mess and the USS Failed Financials thanks to the Bushes?
More so — it is REALLY funny how you seem to know about Hollywood pirates — when your own criminal GOP leaders are at the top rank-and-file of the Skull and Bones society that has plundered the US on land, sea and the airwaves for over a century now!
You're a mess John Scott Lewinski!
It's incredible, retarded illiterate sandnits with Kalashnikov’s are showing up the US and obama and hillbilly are laughing it up. Obviously the sandnits are students of history. When the filthy little islamists in Iran took our hostages for 444 days during the Dhimmi Carter years they were not released until the day after Reagan was inaugurated. You see, our enemies around the world understand you can kick a donk in the teeth repeatedly with no impunity, but a Republican is another matter. The islamists in Iran understood Reagan would not put up with their shyt and would go cowboy on their little Crapistans.
The islamists now know they’re dealing with another Jimmy Carter and they’re laughing all the way.
You are sounding like a 9/11 truther, seriously man. You are not doing us any good here.
Goss ? I wonder if these poor Somali Pirates got their guns because of lax gun laws in America like the poor drug loads in Mexico have done,"so say THE ONE"
Let the Navy Seals settle this and then require all ships crossing this area to carry 24hr armed security forces that can be rotated ship to ship for a fee like harbor pilots.
Hollywood did produce "Blackhawk Down" a decade ago. Of course; this film was pro-soldier and insights about heartwarming brotherhood solidarity & valor in the face of crisis. Yet it was also anti-war against Americans invading poor African nations to feed the starving but whose "leaders" rise up against their imperial oppressors (who screw up at every opportunity and get their soldiers killed). —— Now that I think about it; I'm still not sure of what the hidden political theme was in that movie (there seem to be many). I might watch the DVD again over the weekend and refresh my memory.
Now that the USS Boxer is on station, there's a very simple solution: Flood the well deck, drop the stern gate, and let the lifeboat float right into the ship. No escape for the Somalis, and the Marines will be waiting right outside the door.
Forget words(!!!) a picture is worth 10K of them…post a few photo's of a few of these vultures hanging from a few yardarms and watch the rest find a different religion real fast…oh, wait a minute I forgot, since we have had our testosterone producing 'hangers' congressionally removed during a sterile PC procedure, we can't do what real men who believe in responsibility/accountability would do, so instead we can send in a hundred welfare workers for these four poor disenfranchised and misunderstood unfortunates with some fresh stimulus dollars and VIOLA more democrats and Somalia can become the 51 state !!!! What has happened to my country????? It is truly sad that we have become so uni-sexed that the only option left is to screw ourselves.
Bleh blah blah bleh blah bluh!
WTF indeed.
Obama is not a Muslim. In order to be a Muslim one has to believe there is a God and be willing to submit to him.
Marxists are generally atheists.
Don't forget it was Clinton who ordered the attack and then made a complete mess of the situation. The more I think about it, the more I'm amazed the movie got made.
A Saudi trust fund kid who's first name rhymes with our president's last name was in part motivated to ply his evil trade against the good people of Manhattan after he saw how our last Democrat president reacted to the bravery and might of his Somali brothers in arms.
Must face it, we're a paper tiger again.
Mos Def, call your agent.
Guys, remember that Bruce Willis actually starred in the sort of movie you would like to see. It was called Tears of the Sun. The good guys were Navy Seals trying to rescue a female medical missionary; the bad guys were an African rebel militia group. Ebert and Roper gave it thumbs up! It's a sweet little film. If you don't have it, order it and stop feeling sorry for yourselves.
Don't over think it.
Pirates are romantic. Just like ninjas are romantic and crooks with tommy-guns in the 1930's are romantic.
Only pirates aren't romantic at all (and piracy in the Indian Ocean is not at all new or different, but constant and endemic). Ninjas aren't really romantic at all, and crooks with tommy-guns killed people and stole hard earned money.
The difference isn't PC. It's time.
That's all it is, is time.
Modern pirates would work just fine in a movie… but they'd have to be the bad guys is all.
Heh. It is funny, though, what passes for thought.
I am dumbfounded by the lack of security on these ships; worse the nonchalance they display about the piracy. I saw an interview with a Maersk official and you would have thought he was discussing food concerns amongst the crew. This is all the more remarkable because I can recall the Mayaguez "incident" which prompted the Gigantic Liar LBJ to schedule the Vietnam war; as everyone now knows it was fictional.
Michael Scheuer's contention that the elites of this nation really don't care about individual American's security seems to be being vindicated more and more often.
the hostage negotiators are in charge now.
wold give anything to listen to a tape of a psychiatrist talking to a pirate.
You know, a few months ago, the one and only thing I was hopeful about if Obama won the election was that we wouldn't have to keep hearing about stolen elections and "mission accomplished" and bin Laden and all the other inane blather from leftist screwballs pecking at a keyboard with sweaty fingers in their mothers' basements.
But oh, no. It's still about Bush. Nevermind what's going on NOW. We're facing recession, massive corporate entitlements at taxpayer expense, TRIPLE the deficit of "Boy George" and his "criminal" war, and now the first of probably many tests of our national resolve under President Pantywaist, and what kind of reasoned, up-to-the-moment discussion do we get? Sarah Palin! Reaganomics! Whoopee!
And does anybody believe that our community-organizer-in-chief knows enough history to repeat "millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute?" How long before he apologizes for an American ship being there in the first place?
Don't get too optimistic here. We haven't won yet, and with Obama in charge, who knows?
Wasn't John Kerry in Skull and Bones? I guess he's part of the Bush conspiracy!
The worst part of this is that Obama probably thinks they are harmless and wearing eyepatches and waving bottles of rum…I'm surprised he hasnt downplayed this event. He will be asking how the captain forced them them to take the boat and him hostage…we will be aplogizing for something new any day now. The captain better be released unharmed. Either way, the only outcome for the "pirates", who are actually TERRORISTS, is to blast them out of the water, no ifs, ands or buts…A message needs to be sent to these 3rd world ANIMALS. As for the liberal trolls who keep coming here and spewing their Mccain-Palin OCD inspired rants: you should be on the boat when we blast the terrorists. PS, this will somehow be blamed on Bush's "high seas" policy any time now.
True, but, conveniently; they could always blame Bush 41 for sending them into Somalia to begin with. The U.N. wasn't lily-white in that fiasco either…. and we see now, fifteen years later, exactly what's been the result.
True, but, conveniently; they could always blame Bush 41 for sending them into Somalia to begin with. The U.N. wasn't lily-white in that fiasco either…. and we see now, fifteen years later, exactly what's been the result.
Now THERE'S a Woody Allen movie in the making. Whether it would be a comedy or a drama remains to be seen.
Welcome to the Club, Long John! I've been howling about this kind of stuff here at BH and elsewhere ever since Team Oscar left for Iran. BTW The Prez has yet to make any official statements himself on now-hostage Iranian-Americans Roxana Saberi and Esha Momeni, the latter who was arrested for filming a women's rights documentary in Tehran last October. None on two now-hostage American reporters being dangled by Kim Jong-Il, either.
In fact, it's so bad, even pundits at the Huffington Post are now wondering why Obama isn't protecting American citizens abroad. It's one thing to piss off conservatives. There's no talking to mad liberals. And more and more of them are getting pissed off at this stuff every day at KOS, HuffPo, and even DU. Maybe Hope does Spring Eternal.
Anyway, great piece, Matey! Arrr! Many more to come, I'm sure. Unfortunately.
Goddamn, I miss Ronald Reagan. Even George W. Bush! At least he had a BS threshold.
Obama and Hillary are prisoners in their own self-built PC cells. The Navy sharpshooters could easily drop four bullets simultaneously into the heads of each pirate, effectively rescuing the Captain, but our emporer with no clothes is deathly afraid of offending someone in the Muslim world. God help us get through these next four miserable years. It's Jimmy Carter, and worse, all over again.
Is this one of our "interests" that Home Depot Joe says are more secure?
Never heard of that movie, never seen it advertised, never seen it put up for any awards, and never seen it on cable. Now, do you wonder why that is? Did this "sweet little film" with a thumbs up just suck that badly? Or maybe, just maybe; does Mr. Lewenski still have a valid point?
And I'll wager that Obama orders that henceforth all American ships must carry an ample supply of Halal meals, prayer rugs and Korans for the Somali Muslim "pirates" (a.k.a. terrorists)- just in case negotiations over the ransom take longer than expected.
…What? — you'd rather see Olde man McCain or Sally Jesse Palin shoot down some third world bad guys?
…
Yes, I would.
hey wtf go back to whatever brainless hell you live in. Call your shrink or pharmacist and ask for a bigger dosage.
Yeah. Caution is in order. The trolls are getting more active, and the recent batch are the kind who pretend to agree with us just enough to sound like zealots so they can get others to drop their guard and make the mistake of seeming to agree with them. Then it's off to the Daily Kos and the HuffPo to report back to their masters. WE know the difference between a visceral dislike of Obama and frothing at the mouth. Apparently they think we don't. Good catch, Dark Eden.
Rather than paying a King's (or rather a Sheik's) ransom every time, wouldn't it be much cheaper just to fly the Russian or Chinese flag from all American ships?
There's no way in Hell that those sub-human scum would ever DARE try to hijack a Russian or Chinese vessel because they know full well that they'd be obliterated without further ado.
I'm just sayin'…
The United States politicians care little about a man being taken hostage. If this situation involved women at work being harassed by men (white or black), then Hollywood, Obama, and Hillary would be all over it, demanding action, passing more laws to protect women (International Violence Against Woman Act). The UN would approve and help support.
This is only another man about to die at work. The media and politicians will share with us that the captain is 1) a drunk 2) late on his child support, and or 3) committed adultery. Keeping moving nothing to see here – it's only a American male.
Oh, God, if only that weren't so close to the truth.
Ummm, did we mothball the entire US Navy????? What the heck is going on?!? Order a carrier battle group into the area, sink any and all pirate ships without question. End of the problem. I guess I just don’t get it all this newfangled nuanced way of dealing with thugs. John Paul Jones, Stephen Decatur, Isaac Hull, John Rogers and all the rest of the early US Navy heroes and spinning in their graves.
I'm sure John Kerry's "pirate hearings" will clear this whole thing up. In all seriousness, I feel terribly for the captain's wife and family. I keep hoping that the Navy Seals or some UNIT-like commando group will save this poor guy. I guess these pirates haven't gotten the memo yet that President Obama is everybody's best friend.
We get it. You "won". Now that you have won why dont you stop blaming all of the mistakes that "O" makes on Bush. Moveon.(org) already. Start turning this economy around, start making this country more safe than Bush did.
The real mess is that the US has a president that doesn't even say that the pirate situation should be considered an act of terrorism. Instead he would rather go over sea's and say he is sorry for US being arogant and bowing to someone.
Liberalism is a mess. You are a mess.
I posted my thought that someone should take these pirates out already, but I don't know the tactical situation on the ground and I'm not qualified to know if they should be doing something they are not. One of my commenters remarked that sea ranges were probably too long for accurate sniper fire without potentially killing the intrepid Captain Phillips and you could not get the destroyer close enough for that without maybe spooking the pirates into killing the captain as well. The distance was probably too far for divers even with rebreathers. His other thought was that White House ROE was preventing action from being taken, the obligatory Obama pot shot dejure.
This isn't an international crisis. If bank robbers in downtown Cleveland botched a job and took hostages, you would not expect the president to be opining on it with updates on the hour. This situation is really not much different but for its exotic locale. The President opening his pie hole to talk about a situation that is being capably handled by the military and federal forces on scene is unnecessary for me. Its a focus on the unimportant (Obama saying something because we think he should) over what is important (getting Capt. Phillips off that boat alive). While my steady diet of action flicks makes me want to believe there should be a special forces style fix in this situation already, I don't know squat in comparison to the men and women manning that destroyer on station. I would think it not good time management if the President were doing anything more than being updated on the situation. This situation can and should be handled much further down the chain of command. I prefer Obama keep his mouth shut until he's got something to say and let the people out there do their job.
Forgive me if I gave him any ideas, but I was just trying to get into Obama's mind-set like those FBI profiler's do with deranged serial killers, and that's the idea that immediately sprung to mind…
Yes, lets blame a President from 1980 for today's financial issues. Shoot, lets go back to Lincoln, he must have done something that we are paying for today? Oh, wait,
Well, anyway, lets stick to the situation" Pirates. Your ADD is getting in the way here.
Pirates are bad, Kill the pirates. See, that was not so hard./
Somali Pirates. Hmm lets see, they might be MUSLIMS, right? Hey, we can;'t say that, can we? That would suggest we are profiling, right? Right.
How hard can it be to round up a bunch of illiterate criminals with a leaky boat. Hang them at sea and the others MIGHT get the message.
Or, simply sink any boat with a Somali flag.
Do you think that might work?
Get it over with already and let the seals do their job. We need to send a message and we can't wait for the UN to decide what to do about an American citizen. The captain might have been better off having his crew stick around. They seemed to know what needed to be done and took action. Sometimes there is no clean answer and you don't have time to check polls. Inaction = weakness. Right now it looks like four pirates in a lifeboat without any gas can push us around. Iran, North Korea and Russia are taking notes on how to deal with the new administration.
psychiatrist, "were you an only child?"
pirate "aaaarg".
psychiatrist, "tell me about your mother".
pirate, "aaaarg".
psychiatrist, "i can't help but feel you take hostage out of a desire to be close to someone."
pirate, "aaaarg".
psychiatrist, "do you need a hug?"
pirate, "aaaaarg".
psychiatrist, "here, let me hug you."
pirate shoots psychiatrist.
psychiatrist "ow, wtf?"
pirate "aaaarg".
Hillary laughs about man about to be killed while at work.
http://conservativexpress.blogspot.com/2009/04/hi...
If a women had been working and threatened by men (white or black), I suspect that she would not be laughing, but demanding action and passing International Violence Against Woman Act.
Guess it'll be a comedy. Thanks for the laugh!
The Mayaguez incident was the capture of the USS Mayaguez by Khmer Rouge naval forces on May 12, 1975. Johnson – who was indeed a great liar – died in January 1973.
Perhaps you meant the Gulf of Tonkin incident? The USS Maddox was indeed attacked on August 2, 1964, by 4 North Vietnamese torpedo boats. On August 4, the Maddox, which had been joined by the C. Turner Joy reported torpedo tracks were picked up by their radar sets. Probably dolphins, or waves or a thoroughly spooked radarman, this "second attack" was used as a pretext to escalate US involvement in Vietnam.
LBJ didn't "schedule" the war, he simply continued – and escalated – JFK's idiocy. But then, he was an incompetent, lying crook of a politician; I'm so glad we don't have someone like that in … uh, never mind.
Happy Easter.
wtf,
Wipe the foam off your lips and go back under the bridge. It's way past time for your medication.
wtf,
Wipe the foam off your lips and go back under the bridge. It's way past time for your medication.
If the good Captain is saved by negotiation, Obama & Hillary will be the first to run to a microphone and start singing the praises of "diplomacy." If they end up killing the pirates to free him, they will praise the rescue, then follow quickly with an inquiry as to why such heinous action was taken against these poor, illiterate, starving people. In any case, let's all pray for his safe return, and worry about the politics of this later.
John Scott Lewinski,
You wrote,
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I predict you have a better chance of being abducted by said pirates at your local McDonald’s than you have of seeing either of the above actually occur. Why? Both Hollywood and Obama are held hostage by the same childish, simple-minded worldview that curses all hard left art and politics (a refrain I’ve sung before and will chirp about again): “The strong are always bad. The weak are always good.”
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No I don't think that's Obama's reason for not dealing with them, nor is it Hollywood's.
I beg to differ. Ninjas are very romantic. They just have problems expressing their emotions.
Hilarious! +1 for you!
Thank God it's not the USS Barbara Boxer.
Call me a cynic, but I think Obama's remaining silent because he's afraid the kidnappers might recognize him from his youth!
"Wait, Obama. . . is that you? You remember me?! We were grew up together. I sold you your first teleprompter, back when you had that bed wetting problem. And what you did to that goat. . . man, we still laugh much at that. Did the medicine work? Do not pretend you don't know me… Is this microphone on? Obama call me!"
And the filthy maggot pigs enable this swill.
Now Saul, we all know that Obama is not a serial killer. Deranged, maybe.
We will pay for our weakness.
Correction: in my 1st post it should read "with impunity" not "with no impunity"
As someone else stated, snipers should simultaneously take out the muslim pirates. If the captain is killed due to our inaction I consider obama, Biden and Hillbilly as accomplices and would have them charged with murder.
A week or so ago an Israeli owned ship was approached by pirates, a "conversation" ensued and the pirates suddenly felt the need to be anywhere else.
Now that's funny! LOL
"Olde man McCain"= ageism
"Sally Jesse Palin" = genderism
"Boy George Bush", now you're just being rude. Which seems to be a staple of the left when someone calls them out on their actions.
The rest… please back up your facts. I can think of several books by several authors going into all those topics you bring up that contradict what you say. And unlike you, they're backed up by university, private, bipartisan, and even liberal think tanks' data. Completely cited.
And Reagan led us out of the last "economy is failing" crisis exactly by promoting the free-market. A market that had been heading down from the seventies into the eighties, he had it completely turned around by his last year in office. Do your research.
And as a Yalie myself, I find it offensive that you think that Skull and Bones are pirates. Yeesh, can't you think of anything more creative than just the fact that skulls and bones are on a flag? Skull-and-bones accessories are all the rage amongst teenage girls, but you don't see them holding sailor's hostage.
Fear is a powerful motivator. Vague warning of possible legal action… not so much.
Hey, doesn't Billy Murray's Steve Zissou character in "Life Aquatic" open up a can of gun-blazing whoop-ass on some high seas pirates that board the Belfonte? Great scene.
You're right, perhaps that wasn't a good analogy after all.
Would you happen to know if the FBI profiles con-artists of the Elmer Gantry variety- only MORE calculating and dishonest?
Or delusional narcissistic Ponzi-schemers like Bernie Madoff who run for public office?
Howzabout affirmative action funded Harvard Law Review "Editors" who never penned an article, and politicians who get themselves elected to the highest office in the land despite a total lack of experience in anything except "community organizing", and are out to prove they're smarter than everyone else because they got away with it?
My Lord, maybe is IS smarter than all of us, because he DID in fact get away with it…!!!
You're right, perhaps that wasn't a good analogy after all.
Would you happen to know if the FBI profiles con-artists of the Elmer Gantry variety- only MORE calculating and dishonest?
Or delusional narcissistic Ponzi-schemers like Bernie Madoff who run for public office?
Howzabout affirmative action funded Harvard Law Review "Editors" who never penned an article, and politicians who get themselves elected to the highest office in the land despite a total lack of experience in anything except "community organizing", and are out to prove they're smarter than everyone else because they got away with it?
My Lord, maybe is IS smarter than all of us, because he DID in fact get away with it…!!!
"I have not yet begun to pay ransom." Just doesn't have a ring to it does it?
There are two reasons why Obozo won't crackdown on the pirates:
First, it's politically difficult; his black and liberal base will not react well. The peaceniks are already seething over his decision to continue the air war in Pakistan. If he start killing Africans expect Sharpton & Co to jump in with both feet. The black masses may worship Obomber, but the Black Establishment has always been jealous of him. They secretly resent his success and are waiting for a chance to cut him down to size.
Second, while I doubt he's actually an allah-cultist (for exactly the reasons Zundfolge said), Obongo does identify passionately with the Third World in general, and with Africa in particular. And within that context, he has an especially strong identification with East Africa which is of course where Somalia and Kenya are.
There are two reasons why Obozo won't crackdown on the pirates:
First, it's politically difficult; his black and liberal base will not react well. The peaceniks are already seething over his decision to continue the air war in Pakistan. If he start killing Africans expect Sharpton & Co to jump in with both feet. The black masses may worship Obomber, but the Black Establishment has always been jealous of him. They secretly resent his success and are waiting for a chance to cut him down to size.
Second, while I doubt he's actually an allah-cultist (for exactly the reasons Zundfolge said), Obongo does identify passionately with the Third World in general, and with Africa in particular. And within that context, he has an especially strong identification with East Africa which is of course where Somalia and Kenya are.
Why is he keeping his trap shut? Is he going to quietly pay the ransom to his African cousins? If the hostage is harmed, will he sent the Marines to level their villages? He is keeping his trap shut because he knows there is no polite way to deal with these pirates.
I agree Saul. The pirates probably escort Russian and Chinese vessels to ensure they pass safely; the islamists don't want to see their coastline turned to glass over some Abu-Yahoos mistakenly attacking one of those nations ships.
Yep, as despicable as "our friends" (gag!) the Russians and the Chi-Coms may be (and that is Very despicable, with a capital V), you've got to give 'em props for knowing EXACTLY how to deal with hijackers, pirates, and terrorists!
Believe it or not, they actually do have such a profile. It's much more elaborate than the usual "white male between the ages of 20and 40, probably living alone, unable to form close attachments, and usually sexually impotent." The Elmer Gantry/Madoff profile exists because these people frequently cross state lines and have an impact on interstate commerce as well as often having a dangerous messiah complex. Come to think of it, that does describe somebody in the news, doesn't it?
With all due respect, we did not lose that battle. Like most things military under a dem adminstration, Washington lost. We in the field killed far more of them than they did of us.
I would image either Hillar or Obama will apologize to them… ultimately
(I'm used to living in Liberal Hell, but does that mean I have to like it?)
Speaking of ponzi schemes, who got your money last night? I had to drop out of the bidding on account of extreme post-bedtime syndrome.
Yur so funny. Can we be friends? We librals need to stick togethr because Republican'ts are meen.
I am sworn to secrecy. Suffice it to say, it involved beer, bread, wheelbarrows, and of course, kittens.
Ricky,
I'm not kidding. Obama probably doesn't act in large part, because in doing so he would be taking a risk to his poll numbers. I'm not saying he shouldn't act, but Obama just may not be willing to act, fearing what it might do to his poll numbers if his strategy for taking the pirates on fails. Not too mention, that there maybe other things out there that he just thinks are more important.
I kno yu'r not kidding. We librals don't kid around. We not jokrs like Republican'ts. So are we friends now?
I knew it. Darn kittens. And I had such good plans for your money! Oh well, guess I'll just have to spend this TARP cash Geithner gave me.
The clincher was the winner promised to put a picture of the kittens on my new credit card. All I had to do was provide the number of my American Express card, expiration date, and personal ID code. Do I know how to bargain or what?
I think the word Pirates is so passe. How about nautically challenged insurgents. That sounds so much more in tune with the new thinking. Besides, It's confusing, because todays historical illiterates think the Pirates is some sort of baseball team in Pittsburgh or Buffalo?
Wouldn't it make sense to bring back the convoy concept, protected by a couple of serious warships, but that would piss off the World, so, fat chance that's going to happen.
Sorry GW delivered everything Ronald Reagan gave us. Ronald Reagan gave us a 15 year lead over the rest of the world. GW turned a blind eye and allowed our know how to be given to India and China with the only beneficiary being ultra wealthy CEO's. Modern day pirates. John Thames is no John Gault. He protected the borders of Iraq and neglected ours. He allowed capitalism to become a dirty word and in so doing delivered the US into the hands of Obama. Under GW the US has become an Hispanic nation and the list goes on and on. He was worse than Carter a Manchurian republican and the deliverer of every left wing wish. He wiped this country out.
I heard that one of the pirates is Obama's half brother – has a section 8 condo in Miami. Kept Obama supplied until he switched to regular cigs. Was told he does special 'errands' for Aunt Zetuni now and then.
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