The somali pirates are some little pesky creatures. It is unbelievable that they are allowed to continue their terriorist acts without serious consequences. Someone please wake up the United Nations and see if they are interested in stopping these atrocities. What is the United Nations really doing today that is worth while? Get us out of the United Nations. It is just sucking up our tax money.

Do like 100 years ago,pirates should be put to death on the spot.I garantee you that this will solve the problem..

We could just track them after every kidnapping and kill them when they are on their way home. But then they might take to taking hostages home with them. We might kill them anyways, but that would come at the cost of innocents, they could also plant remote mines and take the ships with them. If they cease to be successful, they'll stop trying. A zero tolerance policy that killed them even if it cost ships and their crews would definitely work in short order, but would of course cost ships and crews. Alternatively, we could require ship traffic in the area to travel in well-defended large convoys so that the we could defend the commercial ships with minimal investment of naval assets. It might be economically hampering to require ships to travel in bursts rather than continuously, for instance because it takes more infrastructure to effectively receive and store supplies in bursts rather than continuously but in less quantity per hour. However, although costly, the convoy solution would also work. A sort of compromise strategy would be to, and perhaps they are doing this already, set up and patrol special corridors that commercial traffic would be limited to. These corridors would reduce the area naval forces would need to patrol, but still might leave the threatened area too large to make impregnable through practical means. Whatever we do, if the pirates succeed a lot of the time then the problem won't go away.