EDHS Contemporary World Affairs

Beccawicks · Senior Member

Bluemangroup-Pirates of the Somalia

Zach_V · Senior Member

They should post NATO ships along the cost of Somalia. This along with air support would deture all the pirates. And if it didn't they they would just get blown out of the water.

Scottster · Senior Member

i think that the best way to get rid of pirates is to have escorts for the tankers and what not

rtheisen · Senior Member

Any military ships out there would do fine. NATO would be best case scenerio, but India had a confrontation with what they believed was a pirate mothership last week, and left it burning in the Gulf of Aden. Pretty good, eh?

Or...we could send in "the fish"...

-- Edited by rtheisen at 19:00, 2008-11-24

alliestoom · Senior Member

we need the cracken and crazy voodoo ladies and stuff.

Beccawicks · Senior Member

And possibly the dead mans chest??

Nato would be best case, but Nato just doesn't feel a blockade is their issue. Which is understandable. I think that Scott is right, escorting is the way to be. I'm not really into giant ship firefights.

jessmontano · Veteran Member

i agree with scott.

MrsCavalluzzi · Guru

Arrr? D'oh!

Here are a few other articles with more information:

http://www.newsweek.com/id/169886

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1858874,00.html

And, for the humorous spin, you can check out this classic SNL sketch:
http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/clinton-at-mcdonalds/2525/

Does the fact that SNL was discussion Somalian warlords and the related problems all the way back in the early 90s (that sketch originally aired when I was a senior at EDHS!) mean that this is a problem far beyond our control? Or that intervention by the world community is long overdue? Or something in the middle?

cstair23 · Senior Member

i like the idea of an escort system
but doesnt the article say NATO rejected the idea of a blockade?

with that in mind maybe somalia can negotiate with whoever they trade with to provide protection/escort services for whatever good they re trading

coolkidchaney · Veteran Member

I think the some military from Nato would be just fine. Or we could get a bunch of Ninjas to battle them.

JeremyNeff · Veteran Member

J.Chain, I'm fairly certain a ninja's training doesn't encompass fighting on the open seas. There's a whole different balance of the elements.Any who, I think the leaders of the different firms doing the trading through that region should perhaps use the old convoy system first deployed in the world war 1. Maybe hire a third party security firm as their protection since NATO doesn't seem willing to. It would be slower and more expensive, but at least trade would continue.

nicholeoli · Veteran Member

i would go with the NATO idea, it just sounds like the most legit solution

Danika · Veteran Member

ninja's can do anything, anywhere, that's why they're ninjas. so option number one, definitely ninjas, if that doesn't work out the NATO ships sound the best way to go

krea · Senior Member

seriously cant we and some other countries.. or you know not even us... cant the other countries out there with help of stronger countries form some organization of force to stop some pirates? it seems like they are being lazy

Zach_V · Senior Member

These pirates sound pretty tricky.

Matt. mhm · Veteran Member

NATO yeeees! Come on....Their PIRATES! really?!?! I have a feeling this will be all perfectly executed shortly.