[oranowdenda]

The Clean Hands Doctrine is being applied at the international level. (The quote below is just the first of several instances in the link.) So don't think that the countries that are dumping toxic waste and fishing illegally get a pass here and the Somalis will be punished as the aggressor. That will not happen if justice (equity) is ever done. And history has a way of doing justice.

I don't think those dumping and fishing illegally should get a free pass. I don't think merchant ships trying to go around Somalia are fishing or dumping illegally. They have clean hands, and the pirates are the aggressors.

If the pirates catch a ship dumping or fishing illegally, then by all means, grab them by the short hairs and expose them for all the world to see. Until then the pirates are hostis humani generis.