As the standoff between the U.S. Navy has intensified in the Indian Ocean, with the pirates vowing to fight on as the U.S. Navy encircled them, analysts were pointing to the episode as evidence that international naval power may have a limited role in ridding the seas of the pirates. This is a real dilemma! Update: Capt. Richard Phillips rescued by Special Forces, 3 pirates killed, 1 captured and the pirates still holding some 200 hostages from many other countries around the world. 04/12/2009