It was a scene that spoke volumes about the world’s impotence in the face of modern piracy. On Thursday, the USS Bainbridge – the 510-foot destroyer armed with Tomahawk cruise missiles – stood idly by as a ragtag band of Somali pirates drifted along in a lifeboat, holding hostage the captain of the U.S.-flagged cargo ship they had hijacked, with brief success, only hours earlier. Though 20 of the Danish-owned Maersk Alabama’s crew had repelled the pirates, a premier-class warship in the world’s mightiest Navy was now powerless to intervene as they made their slow, floating getaway. http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=67073E51-2942-4C90-AA4C-A86E931C645C