And quite often, the victim ships crew don’t even detect the pirate speedboats before they are onboard.

In my opinion, military escorts is the way to operate. Civilan ships can never outgun pirates, and pirates can never outgun serious navies.

Cruise ships have a lot of Israeli owners. They regularly use the passengers for bioweapons experiments.

Bose noise canceling headsets. Just the thing

Ah, it’s petty I know, but funny to think with a few childish taunts I can drive a little virgin on the other side of the planet almost mad with rage.

Incompetent Leaders make Al Qaeda thrive, thank God Russians have a government intelligent enough to handle Georgia from making that incident another World War, as the Bush Administration would likely have done.

Only an idiot would call what the Somali doing super-genius. Your basic reading comprehension failure again proves that you’re a Palin supporter. Somalis: Intelligent in warfare/street smarts? Yes. Super-Gutsy? Yes. Super-Genius? Not really.

You are just a pathetic slob, sitting in front of the computer, degrading the Somalis, because you are jealous of what they can do, and what your broke ass that’s a miserable failure in life cannot do, probably jerking off to random women because you cannot get any.

Also, do you know that Constantinople was the capital of the Roman Empire? How is a capital a rival center you pathetic moron? Arguing history with you is like talking common sense with Bush. Neither has the basic facts.

And history proves, constantly, that in battle soldiers either learn or die. That’s really the only two options. And the World’s most degenerate, poverty stricken shithole would produce constant war, that’s also a fact of life.

And the Mongols aren’t a statistical outlier you dolt. They’re years of evolution of ignorant tribesmen as you call them, or damn experienced fighters as I call them, that took over China, and had death not intervened with one of their leaders, would have probably taken over Europe. Ignorant tribes produce war, which enables the tribesmen to gain experience, which in turn (Amos is lost by this point) ensures that they become good fighters. What does US Marine training simulate? Oh yeah, war. For Somalis it ain’t a simulation, it’s a fact of life. Ergo, they’re good at it. Or do you think it’s “Operation Cakewalk” to hijack an oil tanker?

And Amos – you are such a great punching bag, that even though I’m not supposed to make fun of the mentally ill, in your case, I will make an exception. And try using words other then “fuck” next time. Can you at least do that?

The fact that you are a tard is demonstrated by the fact that you’ve now moved on to lauding the super genius of the inhabitants of the world’s most degenerate, poverty-stricken shit hole, calling me a Klan supporter and assuming I’m an American (I’m not) who lives in a trailer park (I don’t). See, this is exactly why people avoid conversation with dumbfucks like you, you have literally nothing intelligent to add.

Shut the fuck up, dude. I say that as a formality. I know you won’t shut the fuck up. Ever. You’re kind don’t, can’t. And the dumber you are, the louder you are.

Plus a ship carrying Russian made tanks was already captured. The Russians sent a single shio – I don’t think they are the ones going around invading other countries on a whim. With Georgia – let’s not forget that it was Georgia who attacked first. As for calling any race neanderthal – you simply show yourself as a joke.

Also, if the Russians were transporting anything to Iran, any intelligent person who knows geography would realize that the Russians would be using the Caspian Sea. Here’s a hint neanderthal: no Somali Pirates are present in the Caspian Sea. So your dream won’t come true, that makes me, very, very indifferent.

And in Somalia the ignorant tribesmen either become knowledgeble very, very quickly, or die very, very quickly. Before the Battle of Stalingrad, the troops didn’t know much about urban warfare. But at Stalingrad, they learned very, very fast. You’d be surprised how quickly soldiers learn when put to the test.

But Amos, learn? He’d be on the dead list very, very fast. To qoute the Exile “Hey they wired the trailer parks, ain’t that something…” Why am I not surprised that scum like you actually think Nathan Bedford Forrest a hero?

Taking a cruiseliner hostage would be a logistical nightmare–if not an impossibility–for a band of swashbuckling skinnies. Before taking into account the huge numbers of passengers, the pirates would have to deal with the 900-odd sailors making up the crew complement of the ships that companies like Carnival put to sea. I’ll grant that the crewmembers who aren’t security are supposed to be unarmed (and are likely lightly armed in reality), but the Somali groups simply lack the boats, manpower, and space required to hold a floating city hostage no matter how vulnerable it is.

None of that, of course, is going to stop a drug-addled teenager in a speedboat from emptying a magazine in the general direction of a cruise ship. Kids + select-fire weapons = fun even without the influence of stimulants or fast vehicles.

As an aside, one of the bigger cruise lines apparently hires Gurkha security goons for its ships. I’d love to know what they’re armed with given the diverse sets of laws they have to (hypothetically) abide by due to the number of ports in which their vessels drop anchor. I’d also love to see a Gurkha v. Somali khatfreak battle royal one of these days.

In fact, I hear the U.s navy is mothballing the Aegis cruisers in favor of leaky speedboats packed with illiterate 17-year-olds doped up on Khat, and I hear the US army is discontinuing it’s basic program of fitness, combined maneuver and marksmanship training in favor of firing wildly from the hip until your AK jams then running to hide behind a brick wall, rusty car or woman while yelling to your leader on your cheap Chinese mobile phone until the other side triangulates the signal and drops a Jdam on him.

Now there’s a war we can all enjoy.

P.S. Did you know Somalian is the Amharic word that for asswipe?

Furthermore the cruiseship cannot change its trajectory, in the same manner that a pirate boat can. Bear in mind that the sniper needs to hit the machine-gunner before the machine-gunner hits him, which need not be on the sniper’s first shot. Some snipers can make a shot “on the run” which means that they have so much control of their body that their hands don’t shake while they are running. Here the sniper is stationary, but in a boat, it’s a similar scenario.

Amos – if you want to, we can do it. A sniper’s rifle vs. a machine gun, is when the sniper’s rifle will generally win. My only request is that we use live ammunation, because you understand, the Earth has too many idiots as it is, and unlike Grimgrin who at least gets the concept that if the sniper has superior training he can pull it off, you seem to fail to even get that.

Also, a rocking, buckling platform? Have you seen a Somali pirate boat? You should at least study one before your next post, because those things go fast, and a higher speed means less rocking. Also, a machine gun trying to hit a pirate boat that can change its trajectory at any time, is going to have a lot tougher time hitting anything, then a sniper who knows where the victim will be next, because the cruiseship will be going full speed ahead, same speed, same direction = easy to hit. Machine gun was invented to take out the people charging it and in the area around it. On the open seas, with super-manuevrable pirate boats, I’d rather be the sniper then a moving target.

Then you go on and demonstarte your idiocy by claiming that the US Rangers performed stellarly at Mogadishu. Do you at least read the War Nerd? You know, reading comprehension? Being able to re-apply it? Mogadishu, just as most of Clinton’s Foreign Policy, was a loss for the US. 18 US Rangers for 800 Somalis, is a great trade for the Somalis. Right now there are too many Somalis in Mogadishu, so when 800 out of a million get killed, the Somalis go – “meh”. But the 18 rangers, that ensured that the US will leave Somalia. And it provided a free training grounds for the up and coming Somalis against some of the best forces in the field, showing the Somalis that US Elites aren’t invincible. That’s a huge morale bonus. The 800+ Somalis that were killed, were either “Green” or people who recently passed the “Green” stage, not battle-hardened Somali warriors, so don’t give yourself too much credit. 800 Somalis, they pump out that much two weeks and it takes a lot longer to train a single US Ranger.

Your average Somali gunman – probably isn’t that good. However if you take into account that almost every male in Mogadishu is a Somali Gunmen, and you take one percent of that – the truly good gunment, you still have thousands. It’s much easier to produce great soldiers if your country’s in a state of anarchy.

And Amos – just to debunk your Roman theory – what about the Huns? You may want to change that last line to “trained soldiers annihilate and/or bribe ignorant tribesmen”. Of course I could also bring in the Mongols. Shall I keep going? One last thing Amos. Don’t call me dude. I don’t like people who don’t know jack shit about modern warfare, calling me dude. And read Brecher’s book, you might actually learn something.

Sniper rifle vs heavy machine gun in a game of chicken on the open seas. Pure idiocy.

Also, this whole idea that Somali gunmen are some kind of super-human killing machines.. no dude they are just skinny jerkoffs with no training, little organization and no respect for their own safety. That only goes so far against real soldiers, as the U.S rangers proved in Mogadishu when they killed 800 or more Somalis in exchange for 18 of their own. Organized, trained soldiers annihilate ignorant tribesmen, that’s been true since the time of the Romans.