The walking haunted tree, Sen. John Kerrey, now wants to hold hearings on the terrorists. Great. The end result will be NOTHING...just a lot of meandering "it's so nice to be nice" words and no results.
That poor Captain of the Alabama is either going to end up being held hostage for a very long time or killed...meanwhile...Sen. Kerrey, the master of doublespeak, goes around Washington and does all of the media chat shows with his zombie-like face saying absolutely nothing.
I will always remember Sen. Kerrey during his White House campaign being asked, after a 45-minute speech telling the world how George Bush had raped the land and environment with his policies, whether he drove a SUV on a daily basis. "No, I don't drive one but my family does," he said, with his characteristic stone face and eccentric "I want to sound incredibly cultured" monotone voice.
The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee called for hearings on the mounting piracy threat as the fate of an American cargo-ship captain remained in limbo Thursday.
"These acts of piracy off of Somalia’s coastline may seem surreal, but they’re all too real and a thorough policy debate is long overdue," said Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) in a statement. "When Americans, including at least one from Massachusetts, are endangered, you’ve got a complicated and dangerous international situation brewing, and that includes questions about a hot-pursuit policy on Somalia’s coastline."
The 20-member crew of the Maersk Alabama, which was carrying food from the World Food Program and the United States Agency for International Development to Kenya, managed to wrest control of the ship from the pirates after the Wednesday hijacking, but the ship's captain, Richard Phillips, was taken by pirates into a lifeboat that was drifting near the Alabama and the USS Bainbridge guided missile destoyer, which had arrived on scene to aid the ship.
On Thursday, the FBI had joined Department of Defense efforts to secure Phillips's release.
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