Pirate/hostage crisis under President McCain. For all those "there's no difference" people.

[Hanse]

Day 1 of Somali pirate/hostage crisis: Somali pirates attempt hijacking of Maersk Alabama, retreat in lifeboat with 1 hostage.

Day 2 of Somali pirate/hostage crisis: President McCain declares "mission accomplished off of Californian coast.

Day 3 of Somali pirate/hostage crisis: On way back from California, Air Force One crashes, John McCain lone survivor.

Day 16 of Somali pirate/hostage crisis: Using expert CIA intelligence gleaned from Maersk Alabama manifest, the McCain WH determines the Somali pirate home base to be in Mombasa, Kenya. Carpet bombing begins.

Day 42 of Somali pirate/hostage crisis: While attending fundraiser, President McCain jokes about pirate booty being under the table, arrrr.

Day 43 of Somali pirate/hostage crisis: On way back to Washington, D.C., Air Force One crashes, John McCain the lone survivor.

Day 92 of Somali pirate/hostage crisis: President McCain PR coup announced when Dread Pirate #2 killed in combat.

Day 118 of Somali pirate/hostage crisis: 1000th U.S. service fatality returns home, victim of an improvised underwater explosive device.

Day 163 of Somali pirate/hostage crisis: Hostage accidently shot and killed by blackwater mercenaries. Citing Stockholm Syndrome, President McCain alleges hostage in fact in league with pirates. He was, in fact, Dread Pirate #2.

Day 202 of Somali pirate/hostage crisis: While parked on tarmac, Air Force One crashes, John McCain the lone survivor.

Day 243 of Somali pirate/hostage crisis: President McCain launches strike against Russian forces outside of Georgia, citing Russian connections to Somali pirates.

Day 247 of Somali pirate/hostage crisis: President McCain succumbs to senility/radiation poisoning.

Day 248 of Somali pirate/hostage crisis: From fallout bunker, President Palin declares war on all remaining cockroaches.

Day 249 of Somali pirate/hostage crisis: In humiliating defeat, President Palin's position surrounded by advanced cockroach forces, signs treaty of surrender.

[ddeclue]

1. Let's not be jerks about it and exxagerate.

I don't know that there really would have been a lot of difference other than there would probably be a lot more "endzone dancing" by a President McCain than there was by President Obama.

Doug D.

[ColbertWatcher]

2. I don't believe it would be resolved so quickly.

Why would McCain (or the GOP for that matter) allow any profit-making situation dissolve without benefiting politically from it?

Keeping it alive would insure President Palin's "re-election."

[ddeclue]

3. The key lesson of the Iran Hostage situation:

Presidents do NOT benefit politically from having Americans held hostage for any length of time.

Dem or Republican they would have done what was done Sunday.

The difference is in the amount of post take-down self congratulation that the Republican President would have engaged in.

[stillcool]

5. I think that this.

would be a perfect situation that would allow a military campaign..especially if it were to drag on, and end badly. It may still. It is what we do.
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/North_Africa/North_Africa_page.html

[leftstreet]

4. Meh. I'm bored with this pirate stuff. What's next?

:popcorn: