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In response to "The problem with "putting the fear of God" into the pirates is that you have to put enough fear to counteract the desperation of their situation" by Beryllium

i think clearly the thing to do is to come up with facile suggestions about how easy it'd be to fix the problem from behind our keyboards!....nm

Posted by x (aka dmuck) Nov 19 '08, 10:18

YEAH!

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Nothing facile about it. There is currently no downside for the pirates. Make one. Make a big one. - TWuG Nov 19, 10:21 14
- alienating civilians has worked so well for you in the past. -- nm - mafic Nov 19, 10:34 2
  - They're Somalis, they don't matter. If they mattered they'd have formed a government for themselves. -- nm - TWuG Nov 19, 10:36 1
    - nah, they just don't matter till they take down a building or two. -- nm - mafic Nov 19, 10:38
- nope, pretty facile...nm - x Nov 19, 10:23
- Don't worry about the innocent crew members and villagers. -- nm - VMan Nov 19, 10:23 7
  - Collateral damage. -- nm - TWuG Nov 19, 10:27 5
    - not when we know t hey're part of the target. This is the worst idea I've read since znufrii had an idea. -- nm - loosilu Nov 19, 10:28 4
      - It gets better. We should nuke Somalia. Hit every population center. Cordon the coast and destroy any fleeing vessels. -- nm - TWuG Nov 19, 10:34 1
        
        I love your way of thinking. -- nm - General Ripper Nov 19, 10:38
      - gee, thanks. - znufrii Nov 19, 10:30 1
        
        ;P -- nm - loosilu Nov 19, 10:31
  - Glass it. Glass all of it. -- nm - High Templar Tassadar Nov 19, 10:25
- and if they know we wouldn't bomb an oil tanker, they'd steal only oil tankers. -- nm - loosilu Nov 19, 10:22
- which only makes them more desperate -- nm - znufrii Nov 19, 10:21
let's solve health care too! -- nm - ty97 Nov 19, 10:20 1
- duh. obviously, if people would stop getting sick, then the healthcare problem would go away. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 19, 10:21
Exactly! I know. Random plague ships. If they know that they could not only infect themselves, but their entire country, then that should stop them! -- nm - decline Nov 19, 10:20
save somalia, save the surrounding international waters -- nm - Beryllium Nov 19, 10:19

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