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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
If you watched the video I linked to, there is the possibility of Canadian uranium waste being found on the shores as well....
starseed: I posted much the same thing on the Devils site and I was told:
- If I really cared about the plight of the Somali's I should take the country's flag and jump off the CN tower to bring awareness to the issue
- If I'm going to go around defending the piracy, I should just move to Somalia and join them
Unfortunately, the piracy has gotten the worlds attention.... but not the attention that the country needs. There are calls to bomb the country into a million bits... but there seems to be no international appetite to try to solve the country's problems. Perhaps because there is no solution other than a carpet bombing massacre. Or perhaps it is because the U.S. got punched in the nose and they only know one reaction to that.
Here is a video I shot about a year ago. It's a clip from a conference I was asked to shoot where international solutions were being discussed. This is my MP Paul Dewar:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm74Pik9t8E |
If your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
In all seriousness, there has to be a two-pronged solution: make piracy more costly and more deadly, and create a stable polity on land in which these people can build a real life. But that doesn't mean "don't shoot the pirates"--it means "shoot the pirates, but recognize that you're treating the symptom and not the disease. You also have to do something else."