Obama's pirate war

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/14/world/africa/14pirates.html?_r=1

“People are talking about this as a piracy issue,” Mr. Feingold, the Democratic Senator from Wisconsin, said in a telephone interview. “That is not the core issue here. It is a symptom of a disunified government.” Mr. Feingold called central authority the ultimate solution to piracy.

Somalia has veered between lawlessness and rule by warlords for most of the past two decades, providing a haven not only for pirates but also for Islamic militants.

“Every country will be treated the way it treats us,” Abdullahi Lami, one of the pirates holding a Greek ship anchored in the pirate den of Gaan, a central Somali town, was quoted by The Associated Press as saying in a telephone interview. “In the future, America will be the one mourning and crying.”
Pirates have also vowed violent revenge against French ships and sailors after French commandos stormed a private yacht seized by pirates in the Gulf of Aden on Friday, an action in which two pirates and one hostage died while four hostages were freed and three pirates captured. “The French and the Americans will regret starting this killing,” a pirate identified only as Hussein told Reuters by satellite telephone on Monday. “We do not kill, but take only ransom. We shall do something to anyone we see as French or American from now.”

It appears that our President's plate is getting fuller. Feingold lends a lot of support to what Rush Limbaugh had to say earlier. I believe the future will show that Limbaugh was correct in his analysis and that we will end up having to deal with this problem in a way that will not please our President's most fervent supporters.