I Agree with President Obama

I was very pleased to see the way President Obama handled this hostage situation. Approving the use of force after negotiations failed was the right thing to do and I was happy to see him act appropriately. According to the article, not once but twice he authorized the use of deadly force if necessary to save Capt. Phillips including expending his initial approval of force to allow for a larger display of force (more people and assets, etc.).

This is precisely the way our nation should act when threatened so much so that when lawless pirates on the high seas take over a ship and learn that there's an American on board that the American is immediately freed for fear of what is to come. This isn't egomanical nationalism, it's care and concern for our country's own. Other people and other nations should not fear us unnecessarily but if other actors - be they other nations or terrorists or pirates or whomever - threaten to do us harm, God help them.