I saw an article a while ago which stated that historically, in the heyday of 17th Century piracy, the only effective means of stopping it was conquering or destroying their home ports/LAND bases. Piracy has historically only been successfully stopped when the ports were controlled and/or destroyed, because, unlike in the movies, ships must go in to dock.
Such was EXACTLY the case in Tripoli, when President Jefferson had the Marines literally take over that country. Europeans had suffered in slavery for 1,000 years--constantly paying bribes--yet constantly being hijacked and enslaved in the Muslim's galley ships of the Mediterranean until the USA cleaned it up.
Another element in this is (OF COURSE) Islam, which fully authorizes and exemplifies piracy--as that's exactly, in a land based form, how Mohammed lived...
If we put a battleship offshore and used 16' guns to wipe out that rich town on the coast where the Somalis operate out of--there would be no more piracy.
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