That’s now the official and very”astute” doctrine of the Great Leader.

That’s my kind of diplomacy.

“A US Flagged vessel” isn’t just a matter of painting a US hailing port on the stern and hanging a US National Ensign on the aft flagstaff. “Documentation” is a process of registering with the USCG and the vessel so registered becomes a part of the sovereign territory of the US wherever it is. Your basic pleasure boat isn’t a US Flagged vessel just because it has a US flag hanging from the stern and even if you’re licensed, you don’t have the same rights and duties on an undocumented vessel as on a documented vessel.

I hope he had some stronger statements than, “We will tell the UN on you.”

For the crew, I hope they read him his miranda warning! and I hope they don’t get Guantanimoed for the other 3 in the water.

My guess is they’ll go the bailout route: “we’re doing the right thing, we just need to do same thing harder!”

They’ll probably be prosecuted for interfering with the administration’s diplomatic efforts.

Above all Mr President, the ultimate weapon, your teleprompter, show no mercy ! And remember to keep turning your head from side to side, that physical punctuation mark that suggests gravity.

And don’t poo your pants, it ain’t all taking over the economy.

The press would not cover a money drop off… Redstate, stay on the story.

Somali pirates are rag-tags in speed boats, and Somalia is a cesspool.

Level it.

Paying the ransom would only lead to further demands, Jefferson argued in letters to future presidents John Adams, then America’s minister to Great Britain, and James Monroe, then a member of Congress. As Jefferson wrote to Adams in a July 11, 1786, letter, “I acknolege [sic] I very early thought it would be best to effect a peace thro’ the medium of war.” Paying tribute will merely invite more demands, and even if a coalition proves workable, the only solution is a strong navy that can reach the pirates, Jefferson argued in an August 18, 1786, letter to James Monroe: “The states must see the rod; perhaps it must be felt by some one of them. . . . Every national citizen must wish to see an effective instrument of coercion, and should fear to see it on any other element than the water. A naval force can never endanger our liberties, nor occasion bloodshed; a land force would do both.” “From what I learn from the temper of my countrymen and their tenaciousness of their money,” Jefferson added in a December 26, 1786, letter to the president of Yale College, Ezra Stiles, “it will be more easy to raise ships and men to fight these pirates into reason, than money to bribe them.”

– http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/collections/jefferson_papers/mtjprece.html