Four Americans Killed by Somali Pirates

There's a lesson here for sailors and the U.S. Government:

The four Americans aboard a yacht hijacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia are dead.

Hijacked last Friday off Oman, the Quest was being piloted toward the Somali coast – and was being shadowed by a U.S. Navy warship.

CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports that gunshots aboard the yacht were heard, and the warship took action.

All 4 Americans were dead, killed apparently by their captors.

Information from the area is still incomplete, but if the Navy didn't sink that ship and kill every pirate on board, somebody's head should roll.

And while it may sound romantic to sail around the world on your yacht, those days are over, at least until the world's naval force can regain control of the waters in that part of the world. For Pete's sake, stay out of there.  I know these people were trying to take Bibles to different places around the world, but even mission trips don't have immunity from evil.

If I was president I would make it very clear that the policy of the United States is we don't capture pirates, we kill them. If you attack Americans, an American flag vessel, or any vessel conducting commerce for the United States, you're dead meat. We will do what we can to get our people back, but you will die regardless how it all ends.