Published on Monday, April 13, 2009 by Huffington Post
by Johann Hari
Who imagined that in 2009, the world's governments would be
declaring a new War on Pirates? As you read this, the British Royal
Navy - backed by the ships of more than two dozen nations, from the US
to China - is sailing into Somalian waters to take on men we still
picture as parrot-on-the-shoulder pantomime villains....