No need Rocket, Mrs. Layoutshooter and I just went to the dentist last week. As to the movie, that is why is was soooo good and funny. It was like a Norman Rockwell painting. Every kid had a BillyBustFace in his life. How they handled "Billy" taught them life lessons. Those included: knowing that if you get punched it hurts and you live through it. Knowning that bullys can only prey on the weak. If you show weakness you invite the bully to come after you. Bullys no longer bully when you kick thier butt.
Why "we"? They took 4 more boats today, not one of which belonged to the US.It is how they handled thier "Billy" that made it important. If they mishandled it they never learned the proper lessons. At some point standing up to a "bully" or say, these pirates, is the only answer. They took 4 more boats today and more hostages. We must take them out, for good.
One, because for the most part, only the U.S. has the "stones" to do anything. Two, it is hurting world trade. And most important, because it is the RIGHT thing to do!! I would bet money that most of Samolia would love rid of these clowns. Read my earlier post, with my predictions on what was going to happen. I am a bit surprised it happened so fast but so far, word for word on every count. My what experience will do for you. Layoutshooter
They refuse to embrace modernity. These throwbacks are at least 500 years behind the times. Just like the tribal culture in Afghanistan, Muslim fundamentalists have a death grip on these poor folks. Somalia has no functioning government to speak of and little chance of moving forward into the 21st century. It doesn't have to be that way, but it is.A good bit of Africa is messed up and I have no idea why. The continent has resources out the kazoo. There is no good reason why it has not moved ahead. There has been people there longer than every where else. Even so, I still imagine that many of the "every day" people would love a break. They must be tired of all the "garbage" they have to deal with on a daily basis. Layoutshooter
Yes, many of the groups opporating there are Al Qada based. Funny, we are told to deal "nice" with them to maybe end this mess but they are the ones who use food as a weapon. They are the ones that attack aid convoys. It would be hard to bomb them back the the stone age, they are already there. Layoutshooter
I agree, how do you do that without military action? Nothing short of that will work. Our military is way too small, it never fully recovered from Clinton and now we are gutting it further. I see little hope for peace in that region or anywhere now. Weakness breeds contempt. Layoutshooter
So what about the 4,200 dead soldiers, honorable young Americans fighting to free a bunch of people who hate us.
If Iraq ever threatened us directly or indirectly we could have cleaned the slate over there, with very little if any loss of American life. Even if they had a WMD, do you think they could have delivered it to American soil?