Possible to settle piracy issue not at risk of hero's life who saved 19-crew's lives, ship & food aid for hungry?

Somali pirates in a drifting lifeboat with hostage Capt. Richard Phillips want $2 million for his release. How decisively wise it would be to settle the piracy issue not at the risk of a life, a hero’s life who after all has saved other 19-crew’s lives and a valuable freighter, and 400 containers of food aid for hungry people.

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The US-flagged, Danish-owned freighter, Maersk Alabama, hijacked by pirates off Somalia safely reached a Kenyan port at the price of a volunteer hostage, Capt. Richard Phillips. When asked by a journalist how it felt to arrive in Kenya, a member of the 19 remaining crew who did not give his name said it was "terrifying and exciting at the same time." Asked about his captain, he said: "He's a hero."

"He saved our lives," another crew member said. Capt. Richard Phillips, 53, of Underhill, Vermont, set his crew free and a safety journey for the 17,000-ton U.S.-flagged Danish-owned freighter, which was carrying food aid for hungry people in Somalia, Rwanda and Uganda.

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Photos courtesy of Sayyid Azim, Karel Prinsloo, and Reuters / Phillips Family / Handout

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