Would the cowards who run the Pentagon step aside now?

Mark this day on your calenders.....because today is another example that the United States is no longer a superpower; If it were a man, I would slap a glove across it's snout and call it a sissy. The Pentagon announced on Friday that force will not solve the piracy issue now occurring off the coast of the under-utilized tourist beaches of beautiful Somalia. Are you serious? Let me correct the eggheads.....force and I do mean overwhelming force is exactly what will solve the problem with modern-day pirates! The POTUS (President Of The United States) sits in the most powerful office in the history of the world and uses less than 20% of that power. Those carriers and cruisers aren't just for show....they are raw power projection! We alone could throttle the pirates...but wait, I hear the screams of the whirled peas idiots....."where shall we hold them whilst awaiting trial?" Trial? There should be no trial for piracy! "But we can't just kill them, it's 2008!" Yes we can kill them, they're doing something very wrong. Pirates should be shot on sight. No trial, no cell, no GITMO and no lawyers. In the early 1780's, the Barbary pirates exacted tributes from America in return from them not stealing our cargo and crews form the high seas. By 1785, our country disbanded the US Navy due to budget constraints. And the piracy continued. But in 1801, President Jefferson said "no mas". He ordered the Navy up and sailing again and sent a fleet over and bombed their cities and went hand to hand (thanks Marines!) and cut a few throats of those pirates. Look up leathernecks and see where it came from. And guess what.....in the face of that extreme violence and force, the pirates backed down. History is not old news but a compass to guide our future. I, for one, am disgusted by the upper chain of command this great country has to offer. Bold times demand bold men.....step up gentlemen. Here is the wisdom though....extreme force is the only thing that will "win" this GWOT (Global War On Terror). The heathens we face don't want a truce. They don't want terms. They want to destroy our way of life. They are winning too! Crosses are gone from our schools...Christmas has turned into a dirty word in some districts as we let our students study the Koran so we can "understand those poor people Bush is killing"! I moan about the liberals and Hollywood.....but brother, I would drip my blood to defend their right to do whatever the heck the Constitution allows them. And by the way......I went to my kid's CHRISTMAS PAGEANT last night and it was cool and I felt better afterwards. I wonder how the Pentagon guys and dolls felt after their diversity seasonal dinner with a bare green, winter tree and non-traditional treats? I can tell ya that the gingerbread cookies in the shape of a Christmas tree were delicious!