We need a "No Sail Zone" near Somalia

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Originally Posted by joeydb

Oh, the companies shipping are already being escorted. Whether or to what extent they are paying I am not sure of. The Russian and Chinese navies are also escorting some of the traffic so there is a multinational task force escorting (some) shipping.

I saw this as a separate seek and destroy effort to actually make the pirates absorb heavy losses for their actions. It is even easier to sink ships in a region than to shoot aircraft out of the sky that is unauthorized in a "No Fly Zone" situation. The pirates would be outgunned and due to our military superiority, I expect almost no casualties on our side.

So you and I would be paying for this extra effort? Do we lose our right to bitch about Obama putting us further into debt by us funding this extra curricular Military activity? Or is the cost a drop in the bucket in the big picture? How many drops until the bucket runneth over?