Her shots, part of a deafening volley from her fellow cadets enrolled in the school's first-ever firearms training course, were taking aim at a threat half a world away: the surge of piracy off the Horn of Africa, the continent's easternmost peninsula that juts into the Arabian Sea. [More]About damn time.
And then I read this:
"If the pirates get onboard, it's all over for the crew," Murphy said, adding that merchant ships are bound by rules of engagement that prevent them from firing upon approaching pirate ships, and are often unarmed to begin with."Rules of engagement"? For pirates? Are they nuts?
When are they going to get smart and realize pirates could be treated like a resource, a commodity to be harvested? I guarantee you, if the scurvy sea dogs realized that, a whole lot of them would be looking for a safer line of work.
[Via Ed M]
