[BrianR]

Those pirates had better be glad that *I* am not President right now. I'd have green-lighted the Green Berets to kill every last one of the bastards in any creative manner they chose. As long as there are no witnesses. Then I'd have sent in troops to their hometown and started doing the only thing those people understand. And when their entire village was ashes and debris, I'd have put out the word that the next hostage taken would result in the same treatment, that would end this madness once and for all.

I'm pissed off!