Pirates me hearties, pirates!

[kandrathe]

It also disrupts Islamic nations' trade. The pirates are, well, pirates, not Islamists. They prey on everyone they think they can make a buck from. Westerners pay ransoms, so they get high priority, but they're hardly picky about it.

I notice that Yemani ships have been attacked twice over the last ten years, and in both cases the ship was released without ransom.

Now, sure, we've done pretty well in the last few hundred years, and the Islamic world has not.

I was really only thinking of the last few hundred years, rather than the time between the fall of the Roman Empire, and the age of enlightenment which we call the Dark Ages (with good reason).