Talk:The EITC and Piracy War: Announcement/@comment-3451406-20110630004226/@comment-4713152-20110630030615

there's a difference between terrorists and pirates... terrorists are a lot my organized, and have a leader. like benjamin said, the pirates back from the 17th/18th century weren't as "adventurous" as the ones in the movie. they aren't organized, and they don't have a leader (they have captains that command a crew... they didnt form armies or alliances or anything). so "pirates" is not a legit organization like the eitc or a country and therefore i find it unlikely they'd fight a "war". back then, the british, spanish, dutch, etc. colonists in the caribbean didn't "go to war" with pirates. sure, they didnt like them for plundering their trade ships, but its not like they dedicated their whole national armies to fight them or anything.