So if Maersk is a private company why did the Navy have to help them out

[rurallib]

I thought the right always said 'let the market take care of it.'
:sarcasm:

[CLG_News]

1. K&R. n/t

[WilliamPitt]

2. Oh, I was about to go off on you.

Hoo.

:toast:

:rofl:

[gratuitous]

3. Because that's why we have a military

Now keep paying taxes and quit asking questions.

[Rhiannon12866]

4. Because there were American citizens in trouble.

The military is deployed during airline hijackings, too, right?

[Ikonoklast]

5. It is the reason we have a Navy.

The Navy is mandated to protect commercial shipping vital to our economy.

It's part of their original charter.

[MGB67]

9. Marines also.

"Shores of Tripoli".

[Ikonoklast]

14. Eh. Marines just go for the boat ride to get a tan.

:hide:

[slackmaster]

6. 1. Merchant ships cannot be armed for many reasons,

2. It's the Navy's job to protect US interests on the high seas.

[madrchsod]

7. i think what ever blackwater is calling itself now is looking for work...

[Duke Newcombe]

11. Damn...beat me to it.

I was thinking today that this would be one of the few legitimate uses of Xe (nee Blackwater).

[Dreamer Tatum]

8. So if yours is a private home, why would police protect it? nt

[RandomThoughts]

10. SOCIALISM

Money collected from people as taxes to help all of society.

Socialism it is, Socialism!

On a side note, the move to private contractors was to try and reach the goal of a completely private sector army, when the government was eradicated.

Mercenaries answer to the dollar. Soldiers in the US Military answer to the ideals our country was founded on, and set up in the Constitution.

People left the army and joined the private contractors in part because of better pay, pay that came from contracts from government, and money from taxpayers.

Taxpayers pay for training of soldiers, then because of the higher pay of private sector (still tax money) they join corporate armies. This way the corporate army can have a military subservient to the dollar and by extension, Big Money controlled.

[dubeskin]

12. Yeah! Why are we bailing out MORE companies?

Let's see them pay us back...

[Blue_In_AK]

13. My husband, who was a marine engineer for 25 years,

said that (unless things have changed in recent years) the merchant ships are not permitted into ports if they have weapons on board, so they can't have armed crewmembers or hire armed guards.