If you think they have the right to attack civilian merchantmen, capture them, and then ransom them, then we have the equal right to retaliate. Fuck them. If they want a war over this then they will get one; and it will be a war they cannot hope to win. Shitty deal? Yep, welcome to the real world. If they attack me or mine, or my allies, they have signed their own death sentence. At the end of the day they are not my people.
Even if the Summers memo was official policy in some countries, and we had names of countries and companies who dumped and fished, I am fairly certain you would not support Eye for an Eye. Am I right?