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Originally Posted by 911pcars
Our national defense isn't out for hire yet is it?
The Saudis are free to hire Blackwater or any equivalent security force to protect their assets.
Sherwood
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Well, I get your point but it is arguable that this would be in our National interest in the long run. Having said that, we should charge the Saudis for saving their ship....if we do so. I think these tankers and other commercial ships have hired private security in the past and will likely go back to that.
In the past, our Navy would just lay waste to the port cities of the pirates and that was that. They soon learned that piracy was not a good long term career plan. We should do the same now.