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Originally Posted by scottw
The Indian Ocean standoff between an $800 million United States Navy destroyer and four pirates bobbing in a lifeboat showed the limits of the world's most power military as it faces a booming pirate economy in a treacherous patch of international waters.
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So how do you propose we end it? Storm the lifeboat? he'd be dead before the hatch opened.
The french just did it, and 1/4 of the hostages were killed.
Not storming the lifeboat does not show weakness or the limits of the navy.