Navy SEALs 3; pirates 0

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Captain Phillips is coming home.  The pirates who attacked his ship ... not so much.

MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) -- An American ship captain was freed unharmed Sunday in a swift firefight that killed three of the four Somali pirates who had been holding him for days in a lifeboat off the coast of Africa, the ship’s owner said.

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“The negotiations between the elders and American officials have broken down.  The reason is American officials wanted to arrest the pirates in Puntland and elders refused the arrest of the pirates,” said the commissioner, Abdi Aziz Aw Yusuf.  He said he organized initial contacts between the elders and the Americans.

Two other Somalis, one involved in the negotiations and another in contact with the pirates, also said the talks collapsed because of the U.S. insistence that the pirates be arrested and brought to justice.

We get that you didn’t want your pirates arrested.  OK, we didn’t arrest them.  Let us know how “dead” is working out for you instead.

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When you are running out of ammo, the last thing you want to do is act like you are running out of ammo.

I find it silly to attempt to debate what would have happened if only we had done it differently. We dropped an atomic weapon, twice. It ended the war. Period. I respect the decision making process enough to endorse the action. I find your friend's reasoning to be sound and valid. Just because we do not like the solution, does not mean it is not a solution.