Not John Paul Jones, But Jimmy Buffett
PACOM's Admiral Timothy J. Keating lets Beijing have the US Navy's most damning insult:
Adm. Timothy J. Keating, the head of U.S. Pacific Command, and Adm. Gary Roughead, the chief of naval operations, both took sharp exception to the Chinese government's refusal to allow the minesweepers to come into port when threatened by rough seas.
"As someone who has been going to sea all my life, if there is one tenet that we observe it's when somebody is in need you provide [assistance] and you sort it out later," Roughead said.
Roughead noted that neither of the vessels was damaged by the storm and both were refueled at sea by a tanker.
China's denial of refuge for the minesweepers was perplexing and at odds with international mariner traditions, Keating said.
"This is, kind of, an unwritten law amongst seamen, that if someone is in need, regardless of genus, phylum or species, you let them come in; you give them safe harbor," Keating said. "Jimmy Buffett has songs about it, for crying out loud."
This is what comes of inviting the Dalai Lama to dinner.
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