tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post1801759913966211829..comments2024-03-26T09:49:07.212-07:00Comments on The Scratching Post: It's Nice Work If You Can Get ItK T Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-67303400899838255932008-11-20T16:38:00.000-08:002008-11-20T16:38:00.000-08:00Can't we recommission a couple Iowa-class BBs and ...Can't we recommission a couple Iowa-class BBs and have some recreational gunnery practice instead?K T Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-72268210837297079382008-11-20T13:45:00.000-08:002008-11-20T13:45:00.000-08:00Hey KT, hope you're well.....Now to History and th...Hey KT, hope you're well.....Now to History and the way to end Piracy.<BR/><BR/>I had blithely thrown out mini guns and Blackwter in an earlier thread, but upon thinking, it seems we should take a strategy that worked in the past.....to whit,<BR/><BR/>The "secret mission" of 1805. 233 years ago, 10 November, Thomas Jefferson instituted the USMC...and sent them to Tripoli, the home of the Barbary Pirates.<BR/><BR/>It worked. You can't eradicate them on the high seas, you have to get them and exterminate them in their nests.<BR/><BR/>Destroy their bases, and you destroy them. 95 ships this year?<BR/><BR/>Time to send in a Marine Expeditionary Brigade...that's what we do.<BR/><BR/>Besides, the weather is better on the coast of Africa than in Afghanistan this time of year....<BR/><BR/>*only somewhat tongue in cheek*<BR/>WollfWollf Howlsatmoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13326431237011861478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-75140104283586120592008-11-20T12:03:00.000-08:002008-11-20T12:03:00.000-08:00This kind of poverty will only lead to more piracy...This kind of poverty will only lead to more piracy.K T Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-54225226379570574312008-11-20T10:50:00.000-08:002008-11-20T10:50:00.000-08:00Oh, be fair. This isn't a day's work, these guys ...Oh, be fair. This isn't a day's work, these guys are going to have to sweat for at least a couple of weeks on this - plus they'll have to divide it, what, 12 ways? That comes to more like $150,000 a day for those poor, overworked pirates. Starvation wages, I tells ya!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com