Drop your ayepatch

Piracy is not what Hollywood gives us with the likes of a weathered-skinned Jack Sparrow winning over the lady in distress. In fact, it’s quite the opposite, as many ship commanders that travel the high seas would attest to. We could actually learn a lot from reading maritime news, and realize that sometimes it’s best to avoid than it is to provoke. If we do that maybe the U.S. Military would learn to keep warships like the U.S.S. Cole away from the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean along the Somali coast.

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