What should Obama do about somali pirates?

[Kenology]

Kasz216 said:

Kenology said:

Kasz216 said:

Words Of Wisdom said:

Kasz216 said:

This doesn't happen on a frequent basis.  This is the first time an American ship has been attacked by pirates in nearly 200 years

 

Pirate attacks in Africa do especially Nigeria and Somalia waters. 

Pirate attacks against US vessels... are a function of how often US vessels go into those waters more likely than what flag they're flying.

We go there... a lot.  I mean we're one of the leading sources of aid to Africa.

I mean we already were and Bush tripled the amount.

Unfortunately he also quadrupled the structural adjustment shackles stipulations...

 

The africans didn't seem to mind much.  He had some unheard of approval ratings on the continent.

Like the 80% range.  I'm not even sure when the last time was that we liked our own president that much.

Which Africans though?  Lot'sa countries in that there continent!

Biggest aid recipients are the Egyptians easily, followed by the Ethiopians, Kenyans, Ugandans, etc.  Shame most of that money goes to the elite and social programs are severly underfunded.  Extensive research and exposes have been done on this, so I could talk about it forever.  But those approval ratings surely went down when he launched the AFRICOM initiative and saw massive resistance from all over the Continent - even from the stooges in the aforementioned countries.