From Foreign Policy Blog:No wonder we can't get rid of pirates. They are sexy.
Farhat Hussameddin, in an editorial in Egypt's al-Ahram newspaper, says he was told by a young lady that "marrying a pirate is every Somali girl's dream":
He has power, money, immunity, the weapons to defend the tribe and funds to give to the militias in civil war."
Um, sounds good to me....?
In other pirate news, NATO is sending a flotilla to the Somali coast, but its rules of engagement are unclear. Particularly difficult will be distinguishing those hotcake pirates from ordinary, hum-drum fishermen bachelors.