Where’s the President
I’m waiting on Obama to respond to this pirate ship incident with some dignity? So, far all I’ve heard is he’s monitoring the situation? Geez, I’m monitoring the situation myself. Jefferson responded strongly to the Barbary pirates I wonder how Obama compares to those that came before him. I’ll wait and see.
It’s nice to see that the U.S. crew took back the ship. This is American culture and I’m proud of what it seems they have done and how the capitan has reacted. Although, their is sure to be more “story” here.
UPDATE:
Ugh…
“We are deeply concerned and we are following it very closely. Specifically we are now focused on this particular act of piracy and the seizure of the ship that carries 21 American citizens,” Clinton said at the State Department. “More generally we think the world must come together and end the scourge of piracy.”
The secretary of state, speaking at a photo op with the Foreign Minister of Morocco, referred back to problems with piracy that both countries had faced together back in the late 1700s. “I think Morocco was the very first country that recognized us, going back a long time. We worked to end piracy off the coast of Morocco all those years ago. And we are going to work together to end that kind of criminal activity anywhere on the high seas,” Clinton said.
According to Clinton we have to wait and see how rest of the world will react. This is leadership, huh? I suppose the crew and captain should have waited until the U.S. and the world did anything to react? And these are the leaders we elect…
UPDATE: (4/13/2009) Obama let the military do it’s military thing and kill these guys. Thankfully, we didn’t wait until the world decided a response to the hostage captain. Hopefully this pirate issue isn’t out of sight out of mind for the Obama group. But with the above quote I fear it may be.
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