PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - With an alarming number of tankers and cargo ships getting hijacked on the high seas, the nation's maritime academies are offering more training to merchant seamen in how to fend off attacks from pirates armed not with cutlasses and flintlocks but automatic weapons and grenade launchers.Good grief... what the hell do we have a multi-billion-dollar navy for... If it's not protecting our merchant marine and the products they carry that are so vital to our economy? Like oil? Like everything in Wal-Mart from China?
Sorry, I forgot... we use our multi-billion-dollar aircraft carriers to go bomb third-world nations back to the stone age.
Forget I even mentioned it.
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