Michael Radu, a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, has written an excellent essay on the problem of Somali pirates. It analyzes the pirate industry (based plenty of fat ransoms) whose assets give the pirates status in the Somali clan structure; lists the naval assets that could be used against them; identifies the growing links to radical Islam; and explains why Western political correctness makes this problem so much worse than it has to be.
Radu suggests that those countries who want to fight pirates should take the offense, instead of trying to defend ships in the huge Indian Ocean. He recommends a blockade of certain waters, and the destruction of pirates' ships, villas and other ill-gotten gains.
As usual, the French are at least willing to do something to fight the pirates, while the British Navy avoids them because it doesn't want to grant any prisoners all kinds of human rights protections rather than prosecute them. The entire international community, as represented by the United Nations, has as usual fallen down on the job.
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