We used to know what to do with pirates.

The news stories about the pirates who attacked a cruise ship off the coast of Somalia talk about the difficulty patroling inside Somalia's "territorial waters." How can this be? If the government of Somalia were allowing the attacks, it would be a casus belli. It isn't because there isn't any government of Somalia. So how can this non-existent government lay claim to territory in the ocean, since it can't control the streets of Mogadishu?

The United States has had problems with pirates before, and two hundred years ago, we solved the problem of the Barbary Pirates by sending the Marines. I'm not suggesting we send ground forces back into Somalia, but piracy sure sounds like terrorism to me. If we have any hope of finding Osama bin Laden in the mountains of Pakistan, we certainly should have the technology to locate a medium sized ship bobbing up and down in the Indian Ocean and sending out radio signals! It shouldn't be more than an afternoon's target practice for the US Navy to clear the situation up for good.