They gained absolutely nothing tangible. Zip. Zero.
Other than the hope and satisfaction of taking out or mauling a
Israeli or 2 for what Israel has been doing to them. There's
nothing logical about what they're doing, it's completely an
emotional response. What more have they got to lose? They haven't
exactly got much dignity left.
If Malaysia were to cut off our water and we were forced to live
for years on minimum water rations i don't think there would be
people doing any less.
What would constitute as a good enough reason for you then?
Fishing is their main livihood, it's not like they have arable land
and have the choice of being a farmer to support themselves and
their families.
They couldn't possibly compete with the far more advanced and
bigger EU fishing fleets on fishing. And there's no decent
government that could host a proper coast guard to deal with the
illegal fishing. If your bare minimum livehood is threatened, what
are you prepared to do ? That's something we as Singaporeans have
not really faced yet.
Go ahead and sink the pirates, wipe out every single one of
them. But as long as the root causes are not dealt with the problem
will keep coming back.
I don't really regard the Gaza Palestinians or Somalis as
somehow more important than my own existence i am at heart still a
selfish person. But properly identifying the problem means there's
a chance for a geninue solution.
Sure, there is a perfect solution, get rid of the root cause,
make world peace.
That's not going to happen. I don't have a solution for somalia,
but i think it will be prudent for the ships to solve the problem
of getting raided, held hostage, killed and ransomed by
pirates.
If pirates are being killed at an insanely high rate, and has
low success, than less problems for ship. Yes, somalia will still
be a hell hole, but i can't solve that problem, i can't provide a
solution for that. I'm not smart or capable enough for that.
