International Talk Like A Pirate Day
The UN Security Council enacts an authorization to whack Somalia pirates in Somalia. AFP. The Pentagon raises concerns about “practical challenges.” Like telling who is a pirate and who isn’t.
Meanwhile, the Chinese Navy is interested in getting some.
Topics: law & order
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:18 pm on Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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December 16th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Looks like we’re having our Boxer Rebellion. Next up is a Morocco Incident (the U.S. occupied Morocco and Germany and France both threatened war over it. France wound up making Morocco a protectorate to keep rivals out of the place) and a Russo-Japanese War. At this rate we’ll have our World War I sometime in 1918 (World War I being the 20th Century’s Napoleonic Wars).