Bonus detail that didn't amount to much: one of the plans to rescue the hostages involved developing a rocket assisted takeoff and landing system for a military cargo plane to get a team on the ground to extract the hostages and exfiltrate via said plane using a soccer stadium as an airstrip.
Edit: jet and rocket could be used interchangeably but rocket is more accurate in this case.
Most definitely, political treaties and agreements should be prioritized while direct intervention should be a last resort. Sadly little impotent Donny fails at all of the above (luckily in the case of him carrying out military attacks).