[Wilderness Conservative]

Even if we get them all out alive they will still hate our guts.

[laconic]

“Even if we get them out they will still hate our guts”. Reminded, in a different context, of when the US had airbase and naval base in Iceland to protect against the USSR. The leftists parties had agitated for years to get us out; when the US left the bases in the 1990s, they were complaining we had left them defenseless since Iceland had no army or navy.

[Psalm 73]

"Even if we get them all out alive they will still hate our guts."

Everyone hates us. We help them anyway.
That's grace.

[JimRed]

Even if we get them all out alive they will still hate our guts.

Not the individual sailors who are rescued. They'll love us. But you're probably right about their politicians.

And the law of the sea is that you render aid if possible, regardless of who needs it. Even if they were Iranians or NORKs, we would help.

[fuzzylogic]

Yep. Sad.

It’s my understanding that they have a “hate America” day, it’s a national day off. I had a colleague over there during this day, when he asked about it they REALLY danced around the issue - eventually admitting it.

That said, of course we’d love to save these folks and improve the situation.