“So, you would recommend just ignoring the incident altogether? Please educate us as to when shooting down a civilian airliner, going about peaceful business, is not an act of war.”
No. But you want a potential world war over this? As disgusting as this incident is, the idea that a civilian airliner was flying over a known warzone is more disgusting. What the hell was the air traffic controllers doing sanctioning this to happen? And from some of what I read, it was known to pilots to avoid this airspace, but this one just went on through?
I want to see a real investigation, not a bunch of pompous windbags tossing around checks that their butts cant cash. Loose words can let lose wars.
“No. But you want a potential world war over this? “
No, I don’t. And neither does Baird. You keep building straw men, and dragging red herrings around.
If this incident doesn’t merit a response (even one that’s really just a couple of notches above a “strongly-worded letter”), then where would you draw the line? What would it take before you would want to call Putin on it?