On Apr 15, 11:06 am, dick thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > Charles R. Stith > The Boston Globe <http://www.boston.com/news/globe/> > > No silver bullet for Somalia problems
> Simply put, this would create "legalized" bounty hunters acting as > agents of the US government on the open sea - again. Mr. Paul says that > not only would we save on man/womanpower and overall costs (10% less), > but it would be indisputible by the world community. I doubt enough bounty hunters would take on the expense of traveling halfway around the world to look for pirates on the open sea. It would probably largely be just more outsourced jobs. What ever the solution, they'll need to be heavily armed. I suggest having an AT4 or TOW missile to engage any pirate ships. That would slow them down long enough for regular military to get there. I don't think those weapon systems have really ever been tried in the open sea.. but if the pirates have anti-tank grenade launchers, it's only fair that the US use a better version so they'll never have a chance to use theirs. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
