I don’t know what happened to this post – it just disappeared, so I’ll try to recreate the brillance of the first post.<\/p>\n
Pirates captured a US-flagged ship and it’s 21-man American crew this morning according to the Wall Street Journal<\/a>;<\/p>\n A spokeswoman for the U.S. Fifth Fleet said 21 crewmembers were believed to be taken captive in the attack, which took place about 240 nautical miles off the coast of Somalia. A spokeswoman declined to provide further details about the identity of the ship, saying it was allowing the shipping company time to notify families of crewmembers taken.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n There’s very little in the media about this at this point aside from the tiny WSJ article and some AP stories like the one that just popped up on Fox News<\/a>. <\/p>\n I wonder how Obama isgoing to deal with this one. Will it be Navy SEALs in the dark of night or will it be months of negotiation as his poll numbers fall on his apparent impotence. More sleepless nights that we’ll be bombarded with as excuses?<\/p>\n So is this one of those tests Biden warned us about? Will this be the latest Jimmy Carter moment for President Obama?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"