The funniest thing to all of this is just who is complaining... guess what, many shipping companies are now finding out that "flags of convenience" also have a

The funniest thing to all of this is just who is complaining... guess what, many shipping companies are now finding out that "flags of convenience" also have a downside. When a ship bearing an US flag gets attacked, well, the US government will answer, or at least it can be expected to. But why should the US government intervene for a ship that's flying the flag of Panama or Liberia? (Obviously it's still in the US' best interest to intervene nevertheless because no country on this rock is as dependent on free, worldwide flow of goods than the US, but still, they don't have to)