Most of us dislike Greenpeace more than we dislike France.
In a fight between France and Greenpeace we are at best ambivilant about the outcome.
But I think killing some poor sot was over the top.
> you and the aussies should team up and send a flotilla to assert your territorial rights.
We do our best with what we have available: but we're a country with a population the size of metropolitan Chicago. Our resources go only so far: we do peacekeeping in Bougainville and East Timor, we've got soldiers in Afghanisan, and we patrol a huge part of the South Pacific for piracy, drug running, illegal immigrants, search & rescue, illegal fishing, smuggling...
We catch as many bad guys as we can.
I'm not. I wish they would wipe each other out. Militarily, I would call it about an even match. Let's all raise a Speight's when that happens!