Indian navy sinks pirate 'mother ship'

It's about time some of those countries did something to protect their own intrest.

In 1891 Theodore Roosevelt & Henry Cabot Lodge published a little book called HERO TALES, which grew out of their frequent dinner table conversations about American heros. Lodge wrote one of the 'tales' about our country's combat with pirates off the N. African Coast. European nations, as well as the U.S., were paying the pirates ransom to avoid interference with shipping. Angered by greater and greater 'blackmail' demands, the U.S. government decided on a more direct way of insuring the safety of our shipping. The young U.S. Navy won a daring and brilliant victory against great odds in 1804 with pirates in Tripoli. Lodge wrote that Admiral Nelson, "the best judge of a naval exploit as well as the greatest naval commander who ever lived, pronounced it 'the most bold and daring act of our age.'" Congratulations to the Indian Navy, as history, once again, repeats itself....

The thing I don't understand is, rather than paying multi-million dollar ransoms, why don't the owners hire a security force for each vessel, who in turn can protect their interests?

It seems that we should take the fight to the pirates, and attack their dens. If we showed these criminals that they would lose every time, then they would stop. We need to treat these hijackings as we do airline hijackings, and send commandos to liberate, if possible, and summarily kill the pirates. Also, in conjunction with AMcKenz, it seems that a perimeter defense system, with one or two operators within the vessel, could be deployed at reasonable cost.