On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:00:01 -0400, HK wrote:



The ship, its contents, and ransom money are just property, a commodity
much less valuable than the lives of the ship crews.

Yep. That's what has to be kept in mind.
Very easy to get hotheaded about it.
I wanted Carter to give me a rifle and a parachute and drop me into
Tehran back then. With others of course.
Would have been a bloody mess.
The chopper mission might have proved a disaster if they had made
it to the embassy.
So far the pirates haven't killed anybody.
They don't want to mess up a good thing.
But there's some question about where the many millions of money
extorted are going. Terrorists or Wall Street probably.
But I repeat myself.

--Vic