Maggie's Farm

Umm, is it just me or is this not a hard call to make? Obviously anytime your enemies fight your enemies, you want a long protracted battle that weakens the ultimate victor the most but certainly we'd want the pirates to prevail here. The jihadis have an ideology to propagate and any victory that portrays them as being anything remotely successful is a bad thing. I would hope that we would be looking at using this as an opportunity to hit these jihadis, both physically and politically (though covertly), while they are exposed.

As for us (US) being actively involved in the pirate thing, this should be left to the Europeans since the piracy in this part of the world impacts them more than us. This is another opportunity for the EU to put up or shut up. Why do we let those people get away with criticizing us, and then they sit around with their collective thumbs up their arses waiting for the US to solve their problems? Bosnia, Africa, and now this piracy thing are all problems where they could take the lead.