PARIS — Somali pirates in two skiffs fired on a French navy vessel early Wednesday after apparently mistaking it for a commercial boat, the French military said. The French ship gave chase and captured five suspected pirates.Suspected pirates? They were off the coast of Somalia in a couple of skiffs, firing at ships. Of course they are pirates.
The French should have just riddled the skiffs with machine gun fire and left the outlaws to the tender mercies of the sharks. They were 250 miles off the coast of Somalia. It would have been an interesting swim to shore.
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I don't understand why the French WAR ship didn't blow the pirate boats out of the water. One pirate boat lived to rob another day.
Unfortunately they were just facing the reality that the international community looks at this as a short-term, criminal matter rather than an on going series of acts of war.
Too bad, because it has generally been better for Americans when the French are willing to fight.
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