[Arkinsaw]

Amazing to see a regieme waste so much money on keeping the old tub afloat when within the last decade they twice nearly met their demise from starvation,...and only saved by US charity.

It's not an old tub. Its still a commissioned United States Navy vessel. It is the property of the American people, its partially your property.

The foreigners who visited it while it remains illegally held should be barred from entering the United States ever.

[Cvengr]

Sorry to disagree, but when we're at sea chipping paint, including periods when the damned ship had just been thoroughly overhauled and retrofitted, it becomes thoroughly embedded upon one's soul that ships always require maintenance to stay afloat.