Ahhh, but that's the beauty of it all. We don't have to GO anywhere to get the job done. Some corporal sitting in Lenexa, Kansas could take care of business for us.

One US captain would be a small price to pay to keep the rest of the US captains and crews safe from the pirates. That's how all military operations work. You make a calculated gamble on the lives of a few, hoping they make it, but knowing if they don't all make it out but the mission is successful then you have advanced your cause. If you do nothing, the danger for everyone increases. That's why none of the third world shithole countries are afraid to fuck with us. The know that we don't have the balls to do anything about it. The know we will try to talk them to death. And while we are talking to a brick wall, North Korea and Iran are a couple of crazies who are developing nukes and laughing at us at the same time. You have to show the pimp hand occasionally. It did wonders for the attitudes of Japan and Germany.