Eisboch wrote:

"HK" wrote in message
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A great number of the world's nations would have to initiate and
support a nation building effort there for decades to get Somalia
rolling, We've blown two trillion dollars on Iraq, and I wouldn't bet
a dollar on that nation surviving after our departure, no matter when
our departure was. What could be accomplished in Somalia?


Virtually nothing, as Bush I and then Bill Clinton found out.
But meanwhile the piracy will continue. It's a tough one and
unfortunately not the *only* problem that exists like this in the real
world.

Eisboch


Well, I did suggest blockading its ports. There aren't many of them. We
could check every boat entering and leaving every port, removing
weaponry where we find it, taking crews off boats where we find weapons,
and then blowing up their boats and returning the crews to shore. This
could be a multinational task force of blockaders...one destroyer
outside each port, supplemented by armored, fast, armed patrol craft.

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"John H" wrote in message
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Please note that Interstate 90 will be closed this weekend across
South Dakota. This closure will allow the Federal Government free
access to haul a 200 ton piece of coal to Mt. Rushmore so that
President Obama can be added to the Presidents on the monument.
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John H

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