Pirates "ARRGGGHHH" taking over the world

Over the past several weeks, the new about all of these pirate attacks has really gotten under my skin. I was watching Fox News on Easter and they were saying that last year alone, the pirates made more than $22 million dollars off of their hijackings alone. This brings to mind a very obvious question to me. Why in the world are we letting this happen??? With the most sophisticated military in the world, we are reverting back to the old days when pirates ruled the seas. Oh, and the "no weapons on the ship thing.." HELLO??? No wonder they keep coming after these ships. We might as well put out a welcome mat and tell them to rob us. Like most people, if you hear about something that happened to a particular person...for example the guy in Texas that shot the people robbing his neighbor, you make a mental note..."Remind me not to go to Texas and rob anyone...they are so close there that their neighbors will shoot you." That is all it would take to make these pirates run back to the shore...blow a couple of them up, show the footage on TV, and leave one of them with half an arm or something to go back and tell the rest of them. I mean, this is really getting ridiculous and makes us look like a bunch of sissy's. Sorry for the rant this morning...