Not to mention, the U.S. was savaged in the press over it. Whereas now, it appears that the implication is that what the Russian separatists did was ok because the U.S. did it.
I don’t think anyone is saying it’s Ok because we did it. The yahoo’s on the ground that fired the missile screwed up - just like we did. But the airliner could have avoided the air space as well - just sayin ...