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Piracy: a symptom of Somalia's deeper problems : Comments
By Brett Schaefer, published 23/4/2009Somalia: trading nations benefit from having sea lanes free of pirates and should pursue a strategy to discourage them.
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Perhaps you have heard of the famous exchange between Alexander the Great and a pirate.
A the G: 'Why are you a pirate, sailing the seas and robbing people?'
P: 'It is only because I have one ship that I am called a pirate. If I had a lot, I would be called an emperor'.
Perhaps the Somali pirates are an incipient government and we all know how socially useful they are. Please see http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/higgins1.html