We didn't do much in 83 when the Soviets shot down the Korean passenger jet. 62 Americans on board and it left from NYC.
And lest not forget that we took down an Iranian passenger jet in the gulf in 88 that killed 290 souls including 65 children.
My personal opinion was this was an accident. But the question becomes how can a group have this kind of weaponry and not understand the difference between a commercial airline and a military aircraft?
Boeing 777, flight MH17 was shot down on 7-17-2014 (2+1+4=7) :smoking:
This world is sure fucked up.
You can just admit your reading comprehension skills aren't that great. No one here will care.
Damn, do you two have to keep this up in every thread of substance? State your point, back it up and move on. I would assume most people don't want to see you two arguing, crying, deflecting and complaining for pages and pages. It's difficult to stomach and the "ignore the thread if you don't like it" argument is nonsense. Hard to find one of substance without the two of you, or some combination, going back and forth like children.
Just my $0.02
as for the airliner, another tragedy, there are a lot of friends and families in a great deal of pain today. May they find the strength to endure, they're the ones suffering
it seems as if the plane was purposely shot down, but the aggressors thought they brought down a cargo plane (not sure why they would be happy about that either)
did Russia order this? no but they're behind the uprising and the plane was shot down by people they support in the same vain as the Iranian and Syrian support for Hamas and Hezbollah against Israel. Putin has blood on his hands. He's been a rogue leader for several years now, and we need to stop giving him money. But we never seem to make the right decision, and that particular problem predates our modern day buffoon.
RIP, lets up something good comes out of this, like international pressure so overwhelming it forces Russia to back down on it's overly aggressive behavior
there's no strong leadership from the free world any longer, our (read western civilization) enemies are emboldened
you can only achieve peace through strength, this has been true throughout the history of mankind and we're learning that lesson yet again
the world is probably as unstable as it's been since the 1960's