Arrrr-Qaeda
The Zionist Organization of America wants you to know that the Somali pirates are not just privateers but “devout Muslims protecting Somalia against the infidel West.” Having sent out a press release to that effect on April 14, it follows up today with an article by Joshua E. London, its co-director for Government Affairs.
London, who wrote a book about America’s 18th-century war with the Barbary pirates, says the booty is being funneled to Qaeda-linked interests on shore, and that “the actions of Muslim pirates off the coast of Somalia help support the larger jihad taking place in East Africa.”
But if Western powers are already in agreement that they want the scourge of piracy to stop, what is ZOA’s stake in emphasizing the alleged Islamist links? For London, it’s a question of tactics:
This scourge of Muslim piracy cannot be defeated through defensive policing of the Gulf of Aden or the Indian Ocean or precision strikes, soft power, smart sanctions, or carrot and stick approaches, or, really, any other related half-measures. What is needed is the offensive use of brutal, overwhelming force to crush the jihadists at sea and on land, back in their strongholds.
JustASC is written by Andrew Silow-Carroll, Editor-in-Chief of the 
April 23rd, 2009 at 2:51 pm
London scores a good point! Too often we ignore what’s going on in the heads of the attackers, and we ASSUME there are some benign causes motivating them (like poverty, or past wrongs) — but when Islamic fundamentalism is what’s going on in the background, the situation is simply unsolvable… except through force. It’s no different than back in WWII, when giving the Nazis large chunks of Europe did nothing to stop them. Islam can’t be stopped except through force, and a complete overhaul of their mode of thought. If that’s even possible in today’s world.