INS Tavar of the Indian Navy seen rescuing a cargo ship from … Pirates!

Here’s a headline any red-blooded American (U.S.) shouldn’t want to see: India Leads Fight Against Somali Pirates.

As suggested yesterday in this space, pirates are bad and they’re back.  Ninety-one hijackings off the Somali coast in just this year.

If there were ever an opportunity for the U.S. of A. to regain its standing in the world - or for a courageous U.S. politician to go ninja and kick some pirate ass - it’s here brothers and sisters.  Opportunity is staring us right in the face - and we’re being outflanked by the Indian Navy?  Come on!

You know what headline Drudge is running this story under on his website which gets a jazillion looks a day?  How about this: Indian Navy sinks mothership …

There’s something wrong with a “mothership” being sunk that’s not being sunk by our own boys and girls of the U.S. Navy.  Our own U.S. Marine Corps Hymn draws its “to the shores of Tripoli …” from pirate butt-kicking in the early days of our republic.  Thomas Jefferson would be befuddled to learn that with all of our high technology and long-windedness about freedom and justice we are allowing pirates to sail the seven seas.

This is Day Two of my plea for the U.S. to defeat pirates.  For you presidents and presidents-elect out there; can you think of one cooler thing to have on your resume than pirate fighter?  President Bush, this one is being delivered slow and right over the plate.  Please tell America that any further motherships to be destroyed will be destroyed by our own American ordinance.  I’ll bet you it’s worth 20 points overnight in your favorable ratings.

Mr. Obama, is there any better way to establish your national security bona fides than to go out and defeat pirates?  If Shrub doesn’t sink every last mothership, you’d be crazy not to in your first 30 days in office.