Somali pirates: are they a protected class?

Pirate attacks return to record levels

When a jar of marbles is about to fall over do you grab the neck of the jar or wait until marbles are rolling around the floor to pick them up?

We know full well where these pirates launch from but we will not attack those sites because we are stuck on some sort of international niceness. Or, is it now impermissible to kill pirates because of their skin color or religion?

As the old saying goes: "when you need help in seconds, the police are only minutes away.