The Obama administration could have just let this one go.
U.S. District Court Judge John D. Bates’ April 2 ruling that three detainees — two from Yemen, one from Tunisia, all held by the U.S. military at the Bagram air base in Afghanistan without charge for more than six More…
The former Speaker of the House tweets his American Solutions to the Somalia pirate standoff:
The correct answer to piracy is to destroy it not negotiate with it Seals can retake the lifeboat Track every boat leaving somalia
Under no circumstance should any boat carrying hostages be allowed
First, Capt. Richard Phillips, the captured commander of the Maersk Alabama, is the bravest man in the world right now, having tried — sadly unsuccessfully — to swim from his Somali pirate captors while the USS Bainbridge floats nearby. Why doesn’t the Bainbridge just pursue the pirate sanctuaries? More…
With all eyes on the Somali pirates reported to have taken an American hostage in the waters off of Africa’s Horn, Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.), a 31-year Navy veteran, weighed in this afternoon with this message: We don’t negotiate with hostage-takers on land, but we can do so at More…
I’m already sick of the arrrrr-pirates-of-Somalia jokes, but as long as we’re talking about piracy, it seemed worth noting that the Pentagon gave the thumbs-up to the United Nations’ approval of military measures to combat piracy in the Arabian sea:
The U.N. Security Council has approved military action against the Somali pirates. And who’s looking to step up? The Chinese. Yes, the oogedy-boogedy Chinese, the bete-noire of the right in the days before the Muslims were the bete-noire, may join U.S., Russian and European naval attempts at antipiracy. More…
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