US Navy ships fired upon pirate boats off the coast of Africa and were engaged in a wide ranging sea battle over long distances. The pirate boats were sunk, but this is just a small episode in a wider war of religion, imperialism, diplomacy and military efforts lasting for years. The local rulers are very upset with the USA, but the US Armed forces are not taking no for an answer and are practising gun-boat diplomacy to the core. Other nations are hoping that USA will be successful in eradicating this menace of piracy. While the USA is beset with war related fatigue and challenges, which is pretty obvious, it has clear congressional backing to do something about these pirates. The pirate leaders are using the Islamist Jihadi resistance framework to defy the USA, but to no avail. And all this in America’s 1815 war against the Barbary Pirates of North Africa.
http://piquancy.blogspot.com/2007/12/fifteen-men-on-dead-man-chest-and-they.html
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Bhaskar Dasgupta
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