“Jamie, NPR tries to bend over backwards to include alternative POV’s. They don’t get it right, because they don’t understand them, so they always ask the wrong people”

That’s so consistent though that it just seems like another scheme. Invite a blow hard idiot (this instance aside) and say you presented the conservative side. As long as I can remember that was the basic MSM ploy. Example, Pat Buchanan was on TV a lot as the conservative until he finally went too far with some of his WWII views.

He he.

Love it

And (here was the part that surprised me most, beyond the very fact that the guy was given a forum on NPR) the callers and emailers, all but one, agreed, or went even farther than the interviewee: pirates, one caller said, should be shot not upon boarding, but on sight.

Exactly how many times has meeting aggression with resolve backed by military force ever made society safer?

I mean, aside from WWI.

Ah, and WWII.

Well, I guess you’d have to toss in Korea as well.

And, ah, Desert Storm I and II.

Well, I guess the Cold War would qualify.

The Berlin Airlift.

The Cuban Missile Crisis.

Vietnam was conducted differently of course, and is the template for all conflicts since then you see, and those other little nasty bits of business were not the norm.

And ah….well, you get the idea.

1] During the 17th and 18th centuries the British, and other seafaring nations, had a good policy toward pirates. “If you look like a pirate and approach our ships we reserve the right to blow you out of the water. If you are captured in an act of piracy on the high seas and are caught, you will immediately be executed.”

2] During WWII German U-Boats, so as not to waste torpedoes, would surface and shell merchant ships into submission i.e. sink them. Until, the British and later Americans started arming merchant ships and better yet still, disquising warships as merchant vessels and blowing hell out of the U-Boats when they surfaced.

Some good ideas never change….