I think the Liberty was a sister ship to the Pueblo.
We left both ships and crew out to dry. In the case of the Pueblo, we should have wiped that POS nation off the map.
Handling the Liberty matter was too politically dangerous to resolve at the time IMO so the result is what it is but there was no mistaking the flag flying and painted on that ship IMO.
Anyone who objectively looks at the evidence on this, and has a little maritime experience, would conclude the attack was intentional and the goal was to sink the Liberty with no survivors.
The big questions are, why sink it? And, why did the USN/POTUS/Press/Congress go along with the cover-up?
I find it hard to believe that Veterans and otherwise pro-military folks don’t think this is important. If any of my sons ever say they want to join the US military, I’ll make them watch one of the documentaries on the Liberty. This one incident is enough to show that our military men are less than dirt in the eyes of our rulers.
“I think the Liberty was a sister ship to the Pueblo”
Similar vintage (late WWII), but not sisterships.
Pueblo was less than half the length of the Liberty.