Not Just Up to Us

The recent apprehension of the young man who tried--and very nearly succeeded--in blowing up a Northwest Airlines plane near Detroit, shows the need for better international cooperation.
The man flew out of Nigeria, then out of the Netherlands. Let's not overlook those facts.
I heard an additional report on naval piracy on NPR yesterday. The incidents are nearly double what they were last year.
The problem? Lack of international coordination and cooperation. Governments widely vary in their capabilities and willingness to deal with the problem.
The new place that pirates seem to be moving to in order to find safe havens? Yemen.
Yikes. That off-handed remark I made yesterday about an invasion? That doesn't sound that off-the-wall now.
All that's taking place between Asia and Africa, but I wonder how far it will spread.
Doesn't inspire me to take a Mediterranean cruise for a while, though. And I guess that's the point, in a way; if pirates and terrorists can cut into those businesses and prevent people from addressing their leisure time and spending in certain ways, they've succeeded, haven't they?
They win the war not only economically, but culturally, too. They can tell their people that the decadence of Westerners is being cut into, that the jihad is on the way to triumph.
And all they need is juuuuuust a few more people like the young man who thought that taking his own life and 160 others was a good idea. And they will get them.