Celebrations around Piracy?
Posted on | April 17, 2009 |
The news is full of Captain Richard Phillips’ impending return to his Vermont hometown, where there will be what is expected to be the biggest celebration in Underhill’s (VT) history.
I’m all for celebrating courage and resourcefulness, and Capt. Phillips has those aplenty.
What worries me is that a ship that was carry food aid to Africa was hijacked at all, and that this resulted in three deaths. A mission to save lives winds up being about killing. So here are a few questions: was the route taken the only route? Couldn’t there have been some safer way that would not have put anyone at all at risk?
The Somali pirates don’t seem to have learned a ‘lesson’ or anything of that sort. Indeed they’re busier than ever.
Sending food aid to Africa is praiseworthy. Protecting ships is also above reproach. And yet… I’d feel uneasy celebrating this event simply because of the deaths involved. But perhaps I’m alone in this?
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April 17th, 2009 @ 5:18 pm
Well, I hope it means that there will be an international effort to create safe routes for these ships. This piracy thing is going on too long!
April 17th, 2009 @ 9:32 pm
Dear Cat B,
Yes, it does have to be an international effort and that’s something the previous administration was very poor at doing. Part of the effort, of course, would concern eradicating the poverty that leads to piracy in the first place.
And that truly is a global issue.
As ever, Allan