Reply #4: Is Obama The Only One With This Problem?

[KharmaTrain]

Methinks we need to stop thinking that only America can solve the world's problems. Or that the only problems in the world that matter are those that involve American interests. These pirates have been operating for years...a symptom of the breakdown of international law and the complete breakdown of any national or civil order in what was once Somalia.

Short of spending millions to put marines or navy seals aboard these ships or running some kind of Armada along the coast, this is an international problem...one that should be addressed by every country that relies on those shipping lanes. It requires finding out what's going on inside of Somalia (not an invasion), and to either negotiate or isolate those who support the pirates and to punish those countries that help provide the arms and materials that allow those pirates to operate. No one operates in a total vacuum these days. Nor should the US be the policeman of the world. Haven't we learned that lesson yet?