After years of destruction, feminine and broken systems, the raids of these ships has become the temporary solution for the pirates. Remember that when one side of the world is ill, the whole world is ill. The Western world and the UN are looking for a solution for the problem, only in the wrong direction. The problem is to be found in the streets of Somalia. In the absent of an effective national government Somalia has been a lawless country for 17 years. The past decade the international communities have steadfast believed we can stay out of it. If they are going to kill each other let it be. Why lose Black Hawks over a bunch of backwards people? Why invade into a country which is on the verge of extinction? For years we have been neglecting the death rate and the looting in the world’s most dangerous city, Mogadishu. The pirates have done something that neither a diplomat nor a news broadcaster could have done. It has shed a new light on the problems taking place in Somalia. We can not afford to look down to our shoes or send soldiers with guns to the coast to shoot to kill. Somalia is now a global problem. We could have stopped it when it was on land, now it has reached the waters. If we do not seek an effective solution it will reach our doorsteps.
Somalia is a country located in the Horn of Africa bordering Kenya and Ethiopia. Somalia has a rich history but today the country is in serious need of a leader and not a puppet. Past leaders have been made a laughing stock by warlords and Islamist insurgents. The current western-backed president Sheikh Sharif Ahmed has no authority and is losing Mogadishu, the capital, to Al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab fighters. So one must understand these youngsters do not wake up one day and jumped on a ship with rocket-propelled grenades. There is a reason and it is a good one if you ask me. Imagine being hungry, starved to death, haven’t ate a proper meal for years and there comes a ship full of food or something to get you through another day. What would you do? Would you care whose ship it is, would you let go the opportunity to finally get a decent meal?
For years the world community wouldn’t feed these people, didn’t have the decency to even look at them or help them get up and now you wonder why they are resulting into such dangerous behaviour. People who feel like the world community has let them down will reach out to something that was farthest from their mind. As now Al Qaeda is recruiting these hopeless youngsters to make the world pay. I hope we are on time to stop them