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Originally Posted by Strike For The South:
Am I the only one who finds this to be full of awesome? THERE ARE PIRATES AND THEY ARE TAKING GOODS! and here we are bickering about how to protect the ships! I say, why let the Somalis have all the fun? The org should buy a ship and start stealing things. Then we could buy Sealand and live forever on our compound safe from the outside world!
Plunder FTW
I agree - it is awesome. Nobody is dying and when nobody is dying and pirates are running amok I am totally in support of whatever balance is causing it.Am I the only one who finds this to be full of awesome? THERE ARE PIRATES AND THEY ARE TAKING GOODS! and here we are bickering about how to protect the ships! I say, why let the Somalis have all the fun? The org should buy a ship and start stealing things. Then we could buy Sealand and live forever on our compound safe from the outside world!
Plunder FTW
When it is a few ships and people are being garroted it is a concern - when it is little boats full of poor people with RPG's stealing Giant Russian, Iranian and Indian crap and giving the U.S. Navy something to do, I can't say that I'm opposed.
I want to see footage of pirates boarding a ship with cutlasses and eyepatches. And parrots. 
The US Navy definitely needs something to do, I'm sure they are bored and feeling left out of all the fun in Iraq and Afghanistan. Park a carrier group off the Horn, organize a comms net with the merchies, and keep a few F-18s and E-2s aloft 24-7. Of course, given our usual track record, it will start out well, but then we will start going after smugglers and other undesirables, and it will just go downhill from there.
Are there still a lot of pirates around Indonesia?
The US Navy definitely needs something to do, I'm sure they are bored and feeling left out of all the fun in Iraq and Afghanistan. Park a carrier group off the Horn, organize a comms net with the merchies, and keep a few F-18s and E-2s aloft 24-7. Of course, given our usual track record, it will start out well, but then we will start going after smugglers and other undesirables, and it will just go downhill from there.
Are there still a lot of pirates around Indonesia?
Originally Posted by drone:
I want to see footage of pirates boarding a ship with cutlasses and eyepatches. And parrots.
The US Navy definitely needs something to do, I'm sure they are bored and feeling left out of all the fun in Iraq and Afghanistan. Park a carrier group off the Horn, organize a comms net with the merchies, and keep a few F-18s and E-2s aloft 24-7. Of course, given our usual track record, it will start out well, but then we will start going after smugglers and other undesirables, and it will just go downhill from there.
Are there still a lot of pirates around Indonesia?
Yes - just this week there was a hijacking or two in the Strait of Malacca.I want to see footage of pirates boarding a ship with cutlasses and eyepatches. And parrots.
The US Navy definitely needs something to do, I'm sure they are bored and feeling left out of all the fun in Iraq and Afghanistan. Park a carrier group off the Horn, organize a comms net with the merchies, and keep a few F-18s and E-2s aloft 24-7. Of course, given our usual track record, it will start out well, but then we will start going after smugglers and other undesirables, and it will just go downhill from there.
Are there still a lot of pirates around Indonesia?
Here is another link to that IMB site that Tribesman posted. See, Tribesman? I don't see why you refuse to post links to sources - this one is great.
EDIT - the link is dead again, but keep looking, it is great.
Originally Posted by Husar:
I wasn't aiming it only at you but consider that putting a bunch of armed men who get paid a lot per hour on every ship (even those that won't actually get attacked as you do not know which ones will be) won't be cheap either....So you really gotta wonder what is cheaper in the end.
You were being a bit obnoxious over something that I didn't say.I wasn't aiming it only at you but consider that putting a bunch of armed men who get paid a lot per hour on every ship (even those that won't actually get attacked as you do not know which ones will be) won't be cheap either....So you really gotta wonder what is cheaper in the end.
Originally Posted by TuffStuffMcGruff:
When it is a few ships and people are being garroted it is a concern - when it is little boats full of poor people with RPG's stealing Giant Russian, Iranian and Indian crap and giving the U.S. Navy something to do, I can't say that I'm opposed.
Yes, it would sound awesome to you.When it is a few ships and people are being garroted it is a concern - when it is little boats full of poor people with RPG's stealing Giant Russian, Iranian and Indian crap and giving the U.S. Navy something to do, I can't say that I'm opposed.
Yes, it would sound awesome to an American.
If you disconnect from the reality of the situation, and just imagine it as a film or some kind of computer game it probably sounds awesome to most people... (including me)
If you disconnect from the reality of the situation, and just imagine it as a film or some kind of computer game it probably sounds awesome to most people... (including me)
Originally Posted by TuffStuffMcGruff:
I agree - it is awesome. Nobody is dying and when nobody is dying and pirates are running amok I am totally in support of whatever balance is causing it....
I agree - it is awesome. Nobody is dying and when nobody is dying and pirates are running amok I am totally in support of whatever balance is causing it....
Originally Posted by TuffStuffMcGruff:
...and giving the U.S. Navy something to do, I can't say that I'm opposed.
There will be a lot of shooting when the US Navy does something, unless you weren't talking about the pirates' lives....and giving the U.S. Navy something to do, I can't say that I'm opposed.
Originally Posted by Shaka_Khan:
There will be a lot of shooting when the US Navy does something, unless you weren't talking about the pirates' lives.
It was tongue in cheek.There will be a lot of shooting when the US Navy does something, unless you weren't talking about the pirates' lives.
Piracy is a major problem in the gulf od Aden, but up against the killing of men, women and children in those areas, it is a refreshing change.
Originally Posted by Shaka_Khan:
You were being a bit obnoxious over something that I didn't say
If it had been aimed only at you, I had quoted you, but I didn't, I just generally released my post into the wide open planes for everyone to feel adressed if they feel adressed, if you felt wrongfully adressed then that is either because you weren't adressed or because you weren't adressed or perhaps because I didn't adress you. You were being a bit obnoxious over something that I didn't say
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park a carrier group off the Horn, organize a comms net with the merchies, and keep a few F-18s and E-2s aloft 24-7.
park a carrier group off the Horn, organize a comms net with the merchies, and keep a few F-18s and E-2s aloft 24-7.
EDIT: Removed hotlinked picture. BG
WOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Foreign policy according to the WWE? I think we can end this thread now.
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