The good news is that the Dutch rescued some pirate victims:
Dutch forces free pirate captives
Dutch commandos have freed 20 people who had been captured by Somali pirates after the raiders attacked a Greek-managed tanker, Nato says.
The captives, Yemeni fishermen, were freed as the Dutch forces captured seven pirates in the Gulf of Aden.
The bad news is that the Dutch military is apparently saddled with some fairly onerous restrictions on how to deal with hostis humanis generis-type situations.
The pirates were set free, the Associated Press news agency reports, because under Dutch law they could not be held at sea under the circumstances in which they were captured.
Not to be bloodthirsty or anything, but there’s a fairly obvious answer to that.
Moe Lane
PS: Hush, ye lurkers. You wanted “I got this,” right? Well, that attitude is part of what you get when you get that.
Crossposted to RedState.
Excuse my naivety, but what is your “fairly obvious answer”?
I imagine the simple answer involves denying that they know where the pirates are as they mysteriously vanished.
Don’t take prisoners.
Note that this would be the optimal solution for *Dutch* counter-piracy forces. We’re not saddled with quite an onerous set of restrictions.