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Analyst: Use Lasers on Pirates (and Everyone Else)

Well-known defense analyst James Jay Carafano has a solution to the pirate crisis: lasers. That's not surprising, considering his answer to every security question — from Russian mortars to Hezbollah missiles to jihadists' bombs to pirates' boats — lies in lasers and other so-called "directed energy weapons."<br style="clear: both;"/> <a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:be41fa96f6a3695520b10fdd92de4e25:u3fCsKECFapqaboZlTiXudTgJCjfXfIkHB%2BX9oju5P%2F8ZI%2F8kgmJthRhnobaTaR7XO0IotFPNazFkA%3D%3D'><img border='0' title='Add to Facebook' alt='Add to Facebook' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/facebook.gif'/></a> <a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:916f8b04d04667b77d5ddb8deae9e156:cyb5akhXjB1xT3%2BQjGK%2FWoBooQ27PuLlLJEGKexMkXHNN7WRwaymAD9icziJHoUOeqVmvumJkvY7'><img border='0' title='Add to Reddit' alt='Add to Reddit' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/reddit.png'/></a> <a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:b34f07d7fdc8c41e3a5d4576346682ef:X1KGUoRJV10iJ4m6qZ0%2FQnUt%2B5UN9Eq4ct06Bm1BFZNGtlV35GXtsabvE6cUsTavuLrS9K8aoDIt'><img border='0' title='Add to digg' alt='Add to digg' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/digg.gif'/></a> <a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:9d531245a279b1532a0f5f1bc29d917f:H5%2BkfDPwu%2FFGUWlCvqNyw4saUC3285o6IjgyXoHbR0oUt0fPBlXxNvB4n7KxN3D054qcDRiCpsFw'><img border='0' title='Add to Google' alt='Add to Google' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/google.png'/></a> <br style="clear: both;"/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=d51fb87e48a69ec48cf6533244c67142&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=d51fb87e48a69ec48cf6533244c67142&p=1"/></a> <img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=d51fb87e48a69ec48cf6533244c67142" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/> <p><a href="http://feeds.wired.com/~a/wired/index?a=HVTRi5"><img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~a/wired/index?i=HVTRi5" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~4/474170601" height="1" width="1"/>