Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and beginning April 20th, 2021 (Eastern Time) the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.

Why doesn't our new President, put a stop to the Somalia pirates?

I just saw on the news were Somalia pirates fired on a U.S. helicopter.

Stuff like this has been going on for months. Why don't they take one of our battleships out of moth balls. And go down there and blow that country off the map.

13 Answers

Relevance
  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Cuz he's a total wuss, and doing so would be an indication that he cares about this country, it's defense, it's soldiers, and just laws in general. B.O. doesn't care about any of these things.

  • 1 decade ago

    I never saw no military solution

    That didn't always end up as something worse.... "Sting"

    The Somali pirate issue is not a military problem but an economic and societal one. The pirates tend to be former fisherman who have been displaced by illegal dumping and overfishing by outsiders. There is no real government structure in Somalia. There would be no "one" to surrender. To "blow them off the map" would be both immoral and ineffective. The actual solution(s) are all much more complex than this forum allows for.

    Source(s): Master's in Public Administration, George Mason Univ. Concentration in International Security Management
  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    there has been controversy that the clarification for pirating has been because of the dumping of poisonous waste, and unlawful fishing in the Somali ocean, and thats what deliver approximately the pirating. If thats the case, the dumping of poisonous waste, and unlawful fishing must be stopped because of the undeniable fact that's misguided morally, and it may supply up pirating. yet another believed clarification for Pirating is the poverty of the Somali human beings. i do no longer think of stealing justifies pirating, yet once you elect an on the spot determination, in that situation the only thank you to offer up it somewhat is to assist the individuals with nutrition... except you elect for to apply stress. there are a number of proclaimed motives, yet I dont think of no person however the pirates themselves no for surly...

  • 1 decade ago

    Sorry but there is nothing HE can do about this. This is done in international waters. The USA has no jurisdiction there. So many americans want to send a nuke on Iran because they want to blow Israel off the map but you want your President to blow Somalia off the map because of a few pirates? Funny.

  • How do you think about the answers? You can sign in to vote the answer.
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I agree with almost NOTHING this new president does.

    Not "blowing [other] countries" off the map is one thing that I do agree with.

    The US should deal swiftly and decisively with Pirates. Send a helicopter and blow the boat out of the water... But countries who don't police their own - should be made to pay with sanctions.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Unfortunately, it's out of U.S hands

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Clinton tried it and got his *** handed to him. Liberals don't have the guts or the fortitude to fight a good fight. They are weak and give up the fight all too soon.

  • 1 decade ago

    Because he's to busy eating bieef on the end of he's day.

  • 1 decade ago

    he is not a superman to end every bad thing in the world , especially those animals !

  • 1 decade ago

    Watch "Black Hawk Down" you might learn about failure.

    Oh and I don't think there is crude oil there?

Still have questions? Get your answers by asking now.