In the fabulous piracy-oriented South Park of two weeks ago, a French yacht surrenders to Fatbeard the Pirate without a shot being fired. When someone brings the issue up at the UN, a bureaucrat explains "Being French, they surrendered immediately." This brought some thoughts of...
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It appears, contra Cartman's assertion in last night's pirate themed South Park, that Jews CAN be pirates. Someone has even written a book:But Jews were to be found among the.
I'm not sure that I'd draw any conclusions from what's actually a pretty small sample, but Galrahn nevertheless touches on a question that nags at the edge of the piracy.
Dan Drezner and I talk piracy:See also Spencer on piracy and navy reformers.
But I don't understand; why are the dolphins fighting on behalf of the Communists? Have the Chinese been training dolphins for combat? Do we face a dolphin gap? Thousands of.
Via Yglesias, Rush makes a more or less sensible argument about arming merchant vessels:Now, a lot of people ask, “Rush, how come these ships aren’t armed?” Everybody says just give.
According to the New York Times, the kidnapping of Captain Richard Phillips was resolved thusly:Just after dark on Sunday, snipers on the U.S.S. Bainbridge saw that one of the pirates was pointing an automatic rifle at Captain Phillips, and that the captors’ heads and shoulders...
1. Captain Richard Phillips is freed after a brief firefight. Fabulous news, indeed. 2. Aaron Harang goes nine, strikes out nine, allows three hits and no walks against the Pirates..
Annie Lowry:We should stop calling them pirates and start calling them something like "maritime terrorists," to end any remaining romanticization. It would be better if we simply thought about pirates.
These are not the variables you're looking for:Those who argue that violent justice cannot solve this problem ignore several thousand years of history that suggests otherwise. It is absolutely a fact that Somali piracy can be eliminated on land, but history also shows that the...
I'm not sure this is what Sergey Georgyevich Gorshkov had in mind when he green-lit the Kirov class battlecruiser: A Russian nuclear-powered cruiser has captured 10 Somali pirates in the.
Via Galrahn, a PLAN anti-piracy force was stalked by an Indian submarine:An Indian Kilo class submarine spooked Chinese warships that were sent to patrol pirate infested waters in the Gulf.