US warship backs off as pirate talks continue

This is what the US NAvy is today...spectators. The Navy has forgotten why it was created in the first place, TO BATTLE ISLAMIC PIRATES!!!!!!

Now 200 years later, the Navy opts to back off and let negotiations take place between the pirates and the shipping company. Negotiations between Europeans and the US with the Barbary pirates never stemmed pirate attacks. The response that Thomas Jefferson received from the BArbary pirates was as follows:

It was written in their Koran, that all nations which had not acknowledged the Prophet were sinners, whom it was the right and duty of the faithful to plunder and enslave; and that every mussulman who was slain in this warfare was sure to go to paradise. He said, also, that the man who was the first to board a vessel had one slave over and above his share, and that when they sprang to the deck of an enemy's ship, every sailor held a dagger in each hand and a third in his mouth; which usually struck such terror into the foe that they cried out for quarter at once.

It was thanks to the US Marines who fought in the battle of Tripoli that ended the Barbay piracy.

USe those massive cannons on the ships, send in the NAVY Seals. Do something!Reuters

"The pirates have regained hope of getting a ransom (for the Faina). Ukrainian and Somali men from abroad are involved in the bargaining," he told Reuters by telephone.

"I'm sure America is also playing a role because the warship has moved some kms (miles) further away."

The U.S. Navy sent a destroyer and other vessels to track the Faina after it was seized by Somali gunmen in September.

Lieutenant Nathan Christensen, a spokesmen for the U.S. Fifth Fleet based in Bahrain, said several U.S. vessels remained within sight of the cargo ship -- which is carrying 33 Soviet-era T-72 tanks and other heavy weapons.