Posted on 11/27/2015 12:53:16 PM PST by amorphous
In his role as Norad commander for Alaska, McInerney dealt with more Russian fighter jet incursions (which he calls "bear penetrations") than anyone else in the world.
So McInerney knows how to tell innocent from hostile incursions by foreign fighter jets, standard rules of engagement of foreign fighter jets, how to read radar tracks, and the other things he would need to know to form an informed opinion about the shootdown of a foreign jet.
Yesterday, McInerney told Fox News - much to the surprise of the reporter interviewing him - that assuming the Turkish version of the flight path of the Russian jet is accurate, Russia wasn't threatening Turkey, and that Turkey's shoot down of the Russian jet "had to be pre-planned", as the jet wasn't in Turkish air space long enough for anything other than a premeditated attack to have brought it down:
(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...
BS. If it had been a U.S. shot down, everyone here would be railing on the U.S. President for being an idiot.
U.S. shot = U.S. jet shot
Can you imagine a Mexican jet “accidentally” overflying a two-mile stretch of U.S. territory? LOLOL
Gonna have to think about that for a while...
Mexican Helicopter Crosses U.S. Border, Fires on Border Patrol
:-)
Well you made me laugh. But if we are getting into proofreading my next to last sentence to you was damn near unintelligible. :-)
That’s right. And you didn’t see anyone here making excuses for the Mexicans about it.
Oh, was the Mexican helicopter shot down too???
Don’t think so. Why did you post the link?
Why would anyone on FR be making excuses then?
A reminder
“A short-term border violation can never be a pretext for an attack” - Turkey’s Erdogan in 2012
Hypocrite.
My point was, unlike the FReepers here making excuses for the Russian pilot, no one here would make excuses for a Mexican one. Sorry that you couldn’t follow . . . .
The Russians whine like no one else on the Planet.
Thanks!
God, I would love to see the Russian excuses if the shoe was on the other foot.
Couldn't follow what???
Well ISIS doesn't have jet fighters, does it?
Says the international lawyer/diplomat.
Except maybe for you. ;-)
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