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Originally Posted by Socialite
This is an international crisis, not exclusively USA.
Your call for invaded a sovereign border is a lousy precedent at already unstable times. Greater military presence is probably best. Still never fool-proof. These are first civilian casualties.
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To be fair, Somalia has nothing that can be really called "sovereign." That's the problem. I would be against any "invasion" simply because we're a little busy right now trying to build other failed states.
How about this? What if NATO, the UN or some other international coalition established themselves as the "Somali Port Authority." All ocean going vessels would be inspected in the ports (two or three ports at most) and licensed to fish or engage in commerce.
Any vessel sailing to or from Somalia and not checking in with the "Port Authority" would be sunk. Period.
We create "bottlenecks" where we can monitor the marine activities of this "nation." Everyone not going through the "bottle neck" gets blasted. The operations of the "Port Authorities" would be relatively small and in easily guarded compounds.
The limits to which the pirates could operate would be about the limit of an outboard skiff - not much, certainly nowhere near the coast of India and the Maldives where they've been operating. The pirate "motherships" would no longer be part of the equation. A much smaller and a much more easily patrolled corridor of "pirate activity" would be created and the pirates themselves would be denied the open seas.
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