You’d think, wouldn’t you.
From what I’ve read/heard, the Greenpeace folks seem to be playing this very nicely – It’s a humanitarian issue; the whaling is irrelevant in this context, etc. The fact that the whalers are trying very hard to not accept the help just seems like a bad move all around, and a worse move if there are further injuries/deaths, or the ship does something icky like dump a ton of oil in the Ross.
]]>Unless one of the sides has really bad spin doctors, I don’t see the downside (for either party) of accepting the help.
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