Will Obama break international maritime law by allowing pirates to escape with hostages and control the seas?

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Until the moron rightist lobby pressured Obama into taking the action he took, killing three pirates, they had never deliberately killed any hostage. One had died of a heart attack, but hundreds more had been released unharmed.

Obama was a fool for caving into the pressure. I think that in a year from now we will all look back on his actions and say "That was the moment it all changed"

They now have no reason to release hostages unharmed. They will kill others, because it has been proved to them that keeping prisoners alive does them no good.

The West has been thieving from Somalia for centuries and we continue to do so. Should we ever have taken diplomatic action to prevent the massive suffering of the Somali population, the pirate situation would never have got so out of control.But we were all too busy profiting from IMF loans to the corrupt regime there, smuggling ar,s that kill and maim their citizens and sending shonky Christian missionaries there to profit at their expense.

And Obama has just made the appalling situation of piracy off their coast worse...by doing YOUR bidding and showing "strength".

You Americans just never get it, do you?