Pirates!

What do pirates have to do with big government you might ask?

During the Cold War, piracy was almost unheard of because the USSR and USA both had huge naval presences in all the World's oceans. In essence, navies had become so prolific on the seas that no one had to worry about policing the ocean for piracy.

Fast forward to today. The Indian Ocean has become seemingly overrun with pirates, particularly off the coast of Somalia and in the Strait of Malacca between Malaysia and Indonesia. We may actually be living at the all time height of piracy. It is getting to the point where the international community will start asking for someone to quell piracy.

I have a feeling that no one is going to demand that the Somali, Malaysian and Indonesian governments shore up their respective coast guards and eliminate the government corruption that allows these practices to occur. All the governments losing ships to pirates are going to ask our Navy to be the police of the seas once again.

Let's not even mention how the insurance payments on piracy are going to stress the already troubled financial industry.

On the plus side, India seems to be doing a little something about it.