Looks like my friends the Dutch have felt the bat of clue.
The Netherlands plans to deploy 50 vessel protection detachments (VPDs) to protect vulnerable ships from Somali pirates in 2012, ten times the number deployed so far this year. The Dutch cabinet is thus taking the advice of an inter-ministerial commission formed to study the issue.... and the reason they have to do that? Simple. The world's naval powers - led by the US - refuse to do one of the most basic missions of naval power; the protection of merchant ships.
The Netherlands has deployed five VPDs so far in 2011 and plans to deploy more in the coming months. If the 50 planned for next year are not sufficient, more may be drawn from the reserves or private security personnel given military status.
We lack the will to do what needs to be done.
That being what it is - BZ to the Dutch! Hup Holland Hup!
(NB: the pic if of another German/Estonian VPD).
Hat tip Lee.
