Stopping pirates

I'm guessing we'll soon be hearing more about the op and the pirates who murdered the missionaries about the sailboat in the Gulf of Aden.

In the meantime, most sensible people are calling for direct action against them before they take ships. But rather than just attacking the villages they sail out of - which we ought to do - we should hit the people who are financing them.

It's not as if we don't know who they are or can't figure it out - the navy was talking to one of them when all hell broke lose.

Bankroll a pirate, hang from a yardarm: sounds fair to me.