I don’t think anyone is tuoting the line that the Russians or anyone else intentionally shot down a civilian airliner. What is said is that this was a weapon system that never ought to have been entrusted to such irresponsible people.
It is like handing a loaded AK47 to an excited chimpanzee and expecting the chimp to behave responsibly. The Russians should never have entrusted these jokers with anything like the BUK system.
That’s the point, not that the Russians thought it would be a great idea to shoot down an international passenger aircraft.
“What is said is that this was a weapon system that never ought to have been entrusted to such irresponsible people.”
Like giving ANY weapons to those ISIS savages in Syria that are butchering hundreds of people each month thanks to the United States?
We have no moral authority to condemn Russia for anything.
“What is said is that this was a weapon system that never ought to have been entrusted to such irresponsible people.”
I’m not sure that giving the Taliban, ISIS, or Libyan rebels Manpads is such a hot idea either, as they only have to get them into Jamaica Bay and they can be shooting down planes landing and taking off at JFK.
We’re not exactly squeaky-clean ourselves - we’re just fortunate that nothing has happened (yet).