Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Bold Pirates, Typical Bureaucrats

From the Times of London, on the pirates that hijacked a ship laden with oil:

Roger Middleton, a Horn of Africa specialist at the Chatham House think-tank, said that the capture was a crucial escalation. “Now that they have shown they are able to seize an enormous ship like this, it is beyond a military solution. You won’t fix this without a political solution.”

Surprise, surprise. Someone's quickly figured out how to make a buck out of this and form another bureaucracy. And lemme guess: the UN to the rescue?

Such an announcement can only encourage pirates to hijack every ship in sight. Once you make it a political issue, then the pirates are political people, ergo they have "rights."

Being hard people, pirates know cowardice and opportunity when they see it. They'll call a politician's bluff in no time at all, and pretty soon the seven seas will be one big Palestine requiring a Sea Chart to Peace.

Hell with 'em. Break out the yardarms and the planks. It's time to get real.

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