The risk has been small to the Somali pirates. There hasn't been a lot of press on it until lately (at least not here). No press, no heat. No heat, no government action. It's the same everywhere, so I'm not talking about just the US.
There are more nations sending their navies to protect merchant ships lately. This has been good. There will be some escalation, true, but I believe that once the Somali citizens see that piracy really is a risky business they'll turn away from it. The pirates won't be rich heroes anymore.
Germany and France have sent ships, so has the US. I don't know about other countries, maybe someone else does.
Just posted this in another thread... it has good pics...
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/03/pirates_of_somalia.html
Also... as for the threads here... it's gotten tiresome. All I see are anti-Obama threads started by
certain people. Seriously... it's a bore, and it makes the Right Wingers look desperate, feeble and unintelligent lashing out at any scrap of news to twist. So sad that they have nothing of importance to say or add... just the same old song, over and over.