May I never have to deal with another damn plasma TV again. But that’s another story.

Fox News correspondent Mansoor Ijaz talks about developments in Southeast Asia’s piracy problem.

During the past year, piracy attacks in the South Pacific have become much more sinister in nature. No longer are pirates boarding tankers or other maritime vessels for the purpose of taking cash, kidnapping crews for ransom, or seizing and selling the cargoes. Recent piracy incidents are now occurring because those boarding the vessels only spend a few hours at the helm to develop the necessary skills to navigate them — a bit like the 9-11 hijackers attending flight training schools — and then take the captains and co-captains with them when they abandon the tankers.

Apparently they’re also involved in kidnapping of a few senior scuba diving instructors from the area. One of the freed instructors apparently said the pirates/terrorists are involved in learning how to dive. But not to surface. Pretty disturbing when you consider that the 9/11 hijackers only cared about flying a plane, but not landing one.
The article is a fan commentary asking questions about the article. One question in particular is disturbing, but the answer is correct.

You say Al Qaeda is intent on disrupting the global economy to level the divide between the haves and have-nots. Can the U.S. pacify Al Qaeda without proving to them that terror works?

Sure, we can all convert to Islam at gunpoint. That would pacify them. Probably not anything less. This answer is better though:

Civilized people do not negotiate with terrorists no matter what their cause or concerns. We must simply destroy terrorism’s infrastructure, and a key to doing that is to identify potential areas of threat early enough that we dismantle their enterprises before they have an opportunity to complete their training or fully develop their instruments of terror (like tanker ships laden with radioactive materials and explosive fuels.)

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