The solution wouldn't be easy. It would take a sustained and costly effort on the part of many nations to stop piracy. It would take an iron political will to do it, and I think that that is what is probably lacking right now, because the powers that be mostly have their minds on other matters...such as fighting wars in the Middle East.

Believe me, if those pirates were causing a serious interruption in the USA's international oil supply...then the big hammer would come down.

The piracy itself, of course, is partly driven by extreme poverty in places like Somalia. That's another problem that would require a sustained and costly effort to fix.