Obama Admin Paralyzed by 4 Somali Pirates In a Lifeboat

Floppingaces has been reporting on the problem of Somali Piracy for well over a year now. Most of those reports have originated from Bill Roggio’s The Long War Journal. Finally, the mainstream media can no longer ignore the problem, and it’s “suddenly” in the news…well, it ain’t news to our readers. They’ve seen this problem go unaddressed for a long time.

They’ve seen Somali pirates seize ships carrying hazardous materials-materials so toxic that entire villages were wiped out and the UN suspected WMD! Our readers have read about ships carrying a dozen Soviet-built main battle tanks seized by Somali pirates. They’ve even read about a supertanker being taken. Now the pirates have attacked an American-flagged vessel. The crew fought back (like Americans on Flight 93 fought back). The Captain was taken by the 4 surviving pirates, and they left in a lifeboat.

Luckily, we have President Obama in the White House. His “talks without preconditions” foreign policy can’t possibly fail (oops, the boat carrying a negotiator was fired on and driven back by the 4 pirates). His reputation as a man of conviction, courage, and fearlessness no doubt will scare the pirates into letting go of the heroic American Captain (oops, the 4 pirates in the lifeboat said their not afraid). Surely the 4 pirates will hand over their hostage any time now, right?

How strong is the Obama Admin foreign policy?
It’s so strong that 4 twits from a village in Somalia, armed with 4 rifles can prove the entire Administration’s foreign policy (based on “Smart Diplomacy”) to shame, invalidation, and impotence.

No. Why would they? Obama’s paralyzed. He has no idea what to do, and no will to do it. This is an epiphany moment when he’s got to realize that “talks without preconditions” just don’t work. It’s time he listened to the speeches he reads on his teleprompter, “Words have to mean something.” A threat from a man who has no courage or willingness to pull a trigger is not a threat.

Here’s a simple solution:
Have a SEAL swim up to the lifeboat, put some holes in it to make it leak uncontrollably, and make it sink. You can’t swim and fire an AK47, and we know the Captain can swim (he’s already tried to get away, but there was no one there to pick him up). It’s real simple, but President Obama and his entire Administration are taking the Jimmy Carter response to hostage taking: do nothing ’cause doing anything can be risky. Well here’s a newsflash…when it comes to bad guys (and I think it’s safe to put a Somali pirate in that category), doing nothing is doing something; it’s emboldening, it’s heartening to them. It’s the same as surrendering to your own prison.

C’mon Mr. President, step up. Be a man. Be a leader. Be a Washington, a Lincoln, or more specifically a Jefferson, and get tough on pirates. It’s time your words meant something (of course, that’s the problem with your entire Presidency so far, isn’t it?).