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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (17210)1/24/2006 2:12:31 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
LUCKILY, THEY REMEMBER THE DRILL

NEW YORK Post
Editorials
January 24, 2006

Talk about back to the future.

Sailors from the guided-missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill over the weekend boarded a vessel off the coast of Somalia, confiscating a cache of small arms and taking into custody — can you believe it? — a band of pirates.

The interception followed a report that pirates had fired upon a Bahamian-registered freighter off Africa's horn.

Churchill shadowed the suspect craft overnight and — after firing repeated warning shots — sent a boarding party over to inspect the vessel.

The U.S. Navy, of course, cut its teeth in combat against pirates — ironically enough, Muslim cutthroats operating off North Africa's Barbary Coast.

Now — as rogue regimes, terrorist groups and other organized crime syndicates have increasingly turned to the sea to ship their contraband — policing international straits has become critical.

The waters off Somalia, where the intercept occurred, are considered second only to the Indonesian archipelago in terms of danger from pirates.

Indeed, the weekend incident comes in the wake of an attack on a German cruise ship last November. The vessel came under fire from a heavy machine gun and a rocket-propelled grenade; fortunately, it was able to elude the pirates.

That pirates are back on the bounding main — with the U.S. Navy called upon to combat them — underscores how dramatically America's national-security needs changed with the end of the Cold War, and on 9/11. The Navy, thank goodness, is adaptable.

nypost.com
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