Pirates on the High Seas

Well, the Somalia's pirates are going strong and pirating ship after ship, going farther out to sea and seeking and getting larger ships. The ransoms are also going up with each and every ship that is seized. All the while the World basically sits back and watches, except for India which sank a mother pirate ship recently. What good is it to have Russia, NATO, the United States etc. in the area if they don't take action and just basically watch. There are times one needs to stand up and take action.

In Vietnam I remember a Huey shot up over the Saigon River. We were monitoring the conversations with "Wide Minnow" who directed choppers to the appropriate hospital, i.e., Head and Burn patients to the 24th Evac. We listened as the chopper went down and they were going to try to reach it by Ambulance as it was near the 24th. The co-pilot stated he was getting it back up and it was then directed to the 24th. I was on the helipad as the crippled ship smacked down with it's bent skids from the previous forced landing. We rushed in the pilot, door gunner, etc. into the ER. We were told from the Americans on that ship that they were hovering over a Sampan asking the two South Vietnamese advisers for the OK to fire as they felt they were North Vietnamese. They did not get that clearance and in turn they were fired upon. If memory serves correctly, the pilot had among other wounds his heel shot up, the door gunner, crew chief and co-pilot also wounded. The only people not wounded were the South Vietnam advisers.

I heard stories like this over and over from other battle casualties who stated that they were awaiting an OK to fire but ended up getting fired upon first. How many lives of our soldiers trying to protect our freedom have been endangered by this type of direction? And what is scary is that you hear the same today going on in Iraq and Afganistan.

Having said all of this, what is the reason nothing is being done against these pirates? The major powers are letting these ships and crew held hostage. Why? Can someone intellegently answer this question? Isn't it time to blow them out of the water rather than be held hostage by the events?