Teen Somali Pirates has same issue as U.S. illegal immigrants

Although the U.S. military had two armed ships in the third largest body of water on earth, the U.S. military should not have rescued the vessel, Maersk Alabama. Similar to an ill advised invasion of Iraq by the George W. Bush Administration, an administration that did more harm that will ultimately adversely affect humanity worldwide for decades to come than any administration in modern world history, you invite other wannabe tyrants, sometimes, more tyrannical than the first. As of yesterday, electronic media had already reported threats of more childlike pirate attacks.

The message that the forward leaning Obama Administration should send is, if you have commercial interests in the Indian Ocean, not only should you provide for your own security, moreover, if you choose not to provide financial incentives, not ransoms, to the starved and unemployed teenagers of a destabilized country such as Somalia, at least show empathy toward 10, 12 or 14 year old teenagers that are simply looking to earn income for there families, albeit against an ill advised by any means necessary approach.

More disturbingly, major print and electronic media failed to focus on these so called pirates' ages. Could it be that this would be a major distraction from the real issue of not only Somalia, but all of subsuharian Africa, the head of households in these unstable countries are teenagers for one basic reason, an exceptional high mortality rate due to preventable and infectious diseases such as malaria. What the Obama Administration, European Union, the African Union and the G20 should do, is to assist in stabilizing subsuharian Africa economically. According to the World Bank, in 2006, the gross national product of the world's ten poorest countries were all in Africa.

Consider this, some argue that the estimated 20 million illegal immigrants come across California, Arizona and Texas' 2,200 mile southern border to simply earn a living. Can the thought provoking argue that Somali's hijack the less than one percent of commercial ships are likewise doing it, to simply, earn a living?