It's amazing what a fisherman will do when he isn't able to feed his family.
That's what's going on in Somalia.
The English spent the better part of 200 years chasing pirates around the Atlantic, Pacific and Caribbean. It wasn't until there was no longer a business in piracy was it eradicated. Bullets and bombs do not solve this problem, and you can figure that out with a 5th grade education and a short read on historical precedent.
It was the Brits, Spanish, Dutch and French...but whose looking at history.
Since you pulled the history plug, at different points in time until the U.S. became a major power, some of those very governments contracted with pirates to go against the other countries. You know how it ended? It became too dangerous, the pirates had every major government with a navy and some mercenaries hunting them down. Many managed to retire, most didn't make it.
It's monetary profit that drives such activity and the only way to make it not profitable is to make it too dangerous to risk. You failed to ask yourself why the sudden increase in naval piracy? Considering naval piracy has been around for nearly as long as humans have sailed the oceans, why all of a sudden are there more and bigger incidents of piracy just in the last decade than there has been in the last hundred years?
Because rather than do whatever it takes to eliminate the problem, someone decided it was best to make it more profitable than the risks involved...pay them whatever they want. What really takes the cake is there are people in service that are willing to do whatever they have to in order to get those hostages back at the risk of their own lives but they're being told no by people like yourself. Good job. I hope no one you know ever has to go through something like that.
