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

by **teithi71** » Fri Apr 08, 2011 5:45 pm

Obama has no regard for America's law (the constitution) so I imagine he has no regard for any law unless of course it makes Europe like us.
We should park 3 or 4 destroyers off the coast of Somalia and start blasting, using drones to spot any suspicious activity.

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by **mate** » Fri Apr 08, 2011 5:47 pm

Yes that's exactly what's going to happen.....

*sarcasm, btw

by **clem84** » Fri Apr 08, 2011 5:49 pm

Tell me what would you do if you were president?

by **colten** » Fri Apr 08, 2011 5:57 pm

If he had intended to do otherwise the first hostage situation would have been over looooooong ago and the second one would not have occured.

by **chen12** » Fri Apr 08, 2011 6:07 pm

Obama is the Commander-in-Chief, but he is not calling the shots on this one, believe me. Let the Navy do its job. And, no pirate is going anywhere. The prime object right now is not to do as the French and rescue the hostage by killing him. DO YOU HAVE A BETTER IDEA?

by **josephus** » Fri Apr 08, 2011 6:09 pm

He doesn't "ALLOW" as you say them to do anything. They are breaking the law and will be caught, as I write this now, they are in the process of trying to form some sort of law that stretches over the area. The area is over millions of square miles. Its a quite a stretch to have to enforce laws. Just as its quite a stretch for you to imply Obama allows them to do this. I suppose Bush allowed them to do that too? duh

by **parnell** » Fri Apr 08, 2011 6:22 pm

the "Obamanator" is a liar, a coward, and a traitor...IMPEACH him now!!!

by **hackett** » Fri Apr 08, 2011 6:35 pm

the "Obamanator" is a liar, a coward, and a traitor...IMPEACH him now!!!

He'd be breaking international law if he were to go and blow all of the pirates up like you'd like him to do. It's a fine line, these waters are because they lie in the control of so many different countries. How would we (the U.S.) like it if off the coast of the border of texas and mexico, pirates took control of say a Russian ship and the Russians came and blew them away? It would be a little too close for comfort wouldn't you say? That goes the same for our military being off the coast of some country that we aren't necessarily "friends" with. We just can't go in there with the "cowboy mentality" anymore. It didn't work before and it won't work now. Our Navy and it's commanders will not let this get out of control. We will take care of the situation. Don't you have any faith in them?

by **adelphos** » Fri Apr 08, 2011 6:43 pm

where the president stands mute and the evidence of our policy is paralysis, the safety and security of u.s. citizens beyond our borders is abdicated to the whim of any 'mouse who roars'.future actions by bully parties emanate from the consequences of present results and presently, there are no results. ambushes, and piracy is an ambush, require immediate and violent reactions. perhaps osama was right: america is a paper tiger....or perhaps our policy is exactly what it is.

by **said99** » Fri Apr 08, 2011 6:50 pm

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?

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