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Originally Posted by sperry
But there's a problem. The US has a big PR issue with the rest of the world due to the Iraq war. We have a reputation of taking unjust unilateral action, and since Obama's trying to repair the damage Bush did, he simply can't act unilaterally in other nation's borders, even in cases where it's totally justified. We're simply going to have to follow the slow channels of multinational action... go to the UN, get a coalition taskforce together, etc. And in the meantime, there are going to be more ships hijacked, more people killed, and more drama.
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I'm glad someone finally pointed this out.
Yes, it would be great if we had the bodies and resources to go Pirate hunting but in all reality we have much larger problems to deal with. I think President Obama is doing the right thing by trying to refresh the world's view of the US because let's face it, we aren't World Police. Taking any further action in to such a small problem, on open seas none the less, would be counterintuitive in every sense of the word.