Originally Posted by Libertine

I am saying that what you heard on tv was bullshit. I have severe doubts that the person you saw on tv actually was an intelligence agent, and if he was, I find it baffling that he would espouse a viewpoint on television that is radically inconsistent with virtually all international reports on the matter.

Personally, I think the person you saw was most likely merely a member of some neocon thinktank, championing a wildly unrealistic and purely ideologically inspired view of the world. The kind of person that believes a "war on piracy" will solve the problem. And in case you're not getting the reference: yes, I am likening the problem of the international drug trade to the problem of piracy.

If the person you saw on tv was an actual intelligence agent, I would be inclined to weep for the state of American intelligence. The idea that the pirates could be wiped out with a few airstrikes, after all, is as ludicrous as the idea of wiping out the Taliban with airstrikes, or wiping out the cocaine trade with airstrikes.