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04-15-2009
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Big O Should Have Little Problem Defeating the Pirates
They are nearly as stupid as Republicans :
As Sunday dragged on, the seas grew rougher and Navy officers offered to tow the lifeboat behind the Bainbridge, telling the pirates that they would move them to calmer waters. When the pirates initially agreed to hitch their boat to the Bainbridge on Sunday evening, they were towed from a distance of 200 feet. But the ride was still choppy. The Bainbridge began pulling the boat to within 75 or 80 feet, explaining to the pirates that moving the vessel toward the destroyer would stabilize their boat. The snipers probably took positions on catwalks or the ship's rear-facing fantail that obscured them from the pirates' view. And the Navy made the snipers' task easier by getting the pirates to let themselves be tethered to the ship. "I wouldn't be surprised if they turned dead into the swells," the military official said, describing how the Navy is likely to have used the warship to plow through waves and draw the rescue craft closer in a relatively smooth wake. "From that range," he said, "they've got a fairly good margin of error." Indeed, military officials said that once the lifeboat was tethered to the destroyer, the pirates grew more desperate, feeling that they had lost control of their boat and the situation. The pirates also were probably experiencing a withdrawal from khat, a narcotic leaf chewed by many Somali men, according to the senior military official. Withdrawal from the amphetamine-like stimulant can induce depression. Los Angeles Times: Moment to shoot Somali pirates had come This reminds me of O's rope a dope strategy with McCain. He got him to say the US economy was fundamentally strong and then turned down Mc"s offer to suspend the campaign to take care of it. Can you imagine anyone dumber than one who would turn over control of his ship to his enemy? |
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