Arr-rony

I find it ironic that the Obama administration recently stepped up its language against the Somali pirates. This is, after all, an administration that has started a trade war with Mexico, said(at one point at least) that it wanted to revise NAFTA, and has no problems discussing tariffs and protectionist trade barriers - even sneaking them into the so-called stimulus bill. I see trade barriers and piracy as two sides of the same coin. Both impede the process of free and fair trade between willing parties through the use of force, taking their unfairly gotten gains for uncertain economic uses.


The only difference is that the pirates do their work by spitting on the rule of law. The government gets to claim it is the rule of law. And then take whatever it wants.