Posted on 07/20/2014 10:16:51 AM PDT by Steelfish
The only nation in the area which had the capability of doing what you have suggested is Ukraine. Had Ukraine tried to secure the crash site, it would have suffered a lot of casualties and loss of equipment long before the crash site could have been considered secure. In the end, the crash site would have been blended in with the residue of military damage, with no guarantee that the black boxes would have been recovered, and with a certainty that the "crime scene" evidence which needed to be preserved would have been rendered useless. In short, a lot lives and equipment would have been expended to accomplish nothing.
Next time, place that part of your comment near the top so that I can ignore what follows.
Post more Time articles and show everyone what great conservatives you are.
What is obvious does not matter. We must keep piling on the pressure. Everyone must hate Putin and be racist towards all Russians. How could we ever enter into another Cold War, if we were not ? And the sad part is, Putin would love another cold war. In fact he is already laying the ground work within Russia. Denying press freedoms. Jailing activists. All coming to America thanks to Putin's pal Obama and the GOP-E.
Just musing here, but suppose ANWR, and many other oil exploration, development, and transportation projects like KEYSTONE had regularly been approved. Russia might threaten Europe with a cutoff of energy supplies, and Europe could immediately turn to the U.S. with no disruption to their needs. The impact on Russia would be severe, instead of being severe to Europe.
1. Obama is a complete mediocrity - an empty suit. He's in way over his head and when he doesn't know what else to do, he goes into the only thing he does well - his campaign and fund-raise song and dance.
2. Obama is a deeply committed leftist who hates the United States and is using his power, gained through lies and media manipulation, to destroy the United States as the world's sole super power.
3. Obama is being blackmailed with kompromat, probably Russian, that probably involves deeply embarrassing personal foibles (homosexual escapades, if I were to guess) and probably even some felony political crimes AND/OR is being bribed with large sums of money deposited into foreign bank accounts, probably by Putin himself.
4. All of the above.
I think that the only thing that explains the surrender in Iraq and Afghanistan, the treason of Benghazi, the intentionally-created chaos in Syria and the rise of a new Islamic Caliphate, the humiliating retreat in Ukraine, the gutting of our manned space program, the denial of the Keystone pipeline and drill baby drill - is "D" - all of the above.
Piss off. You probably never even paid attention to the articles I post until I posted something critical to your Hero of the Soviet Union.
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