[quote}The incident took place ten weeks after the inauguration of George W. Bush as president and was his first foreign policy crisis. Both sides were criticized following the event; the Chinese for making a bluff which was called without any real concessions from the American side other than the "Letter of the two sorries," and the U.S. first for being insensitive immediately after the event and later for issuing the letter rather than taking a harder line[/quote}
FISH ON!
Give me an effin break. The crew should have been court martialed.
The response was lame, just like the POTUS.