Posted by
Unionpuke on Friday, April 10, 2009 12:00:00 AM
I haven't really followed the Somali pirate story to much , but this could be a redemption moment in time.
Let's look at the facts , we have a pirate problem , they are causing havoc with american shipping, they are demanding tribute or ransom's from country's that have legal right's of passage in international water's, and taking hostage's, basically they are annoying as hell , and not much of a military force.
Now for the redemption part , we had a Captain Bainbridge in the first Algerian War , this poor naval officer accidently ran his ship aground , and this ship was the USS Philadelphia , we had to burn it to keep it from being taken by the Barbary Corsairs, and Bainbridge spent some time in prison, well after the war of 1812 , we were being harassed by the Barbary Pirates once again , well this time ships were sent by the the United States to end this once again, well Stephen Decatur was in charge of one squadron and Bainbridge was in charge of later deployed second squadron, Decatur finished the job before Bainbridge arrived , so Bainbridge did not receive the satisfaction of finally defeating the Barbary Pirate's.
Well what do we have here , the USS Bainbridge is sitting a single mile from a bunch of blood thirsty (arrgh) pirates, who are the scourge of the Gulf of Aden, I think it is high time we let the Bainbridge go and get his Payback.
First take out every pirate ship that show's it face in the area, next slip in close and completely destroy the seaside mansion's these so called marauder's of Aden are building , it is time to make them pay and the Bainbridge is just the ship who needs a Payback,
as for this limp wristed response , as a ex sailor I'm hanging my head, go get 'em boys Boarding partie's away give'm good broadside and demast those scurvy dog's and send them to Davy Jones.
That's from an old Shellback, don't forget to load the 18 pounder's with grape and chain,(that was a weapon of mass destruction back then).
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