A bit miffed that Rage was bumped
off the ABC airways on Saturday morning because they decided to run a news program
instead, can only assume because of the downing of flight MH17 over Ukraine - isn’t
that what ABC NEWS 24 is for!! The absolute horror of this event is
indisputable but do we have to have it rammed down our throats by each and
every media outlet. And I know that this may seem a bit callous but hasn’t this
all happened before? Many times? On September 1, 1983, KAL007 was shot down by
a Soviet fighter plane, killing all 269 passengers and crew. On July 3, 1988, an
American cruiser, the USS Vincennes, mistook Iran Air Flight 655 for an F-14, and
launched two missiles, downing the plane and killing all 290 passengers and
crew. These are just two examples of militia downing passenger aircraft.
Russia, the US, China, Israel and even NATO have done it. So it really should
not come as such as a surprise – when you create such diabolical weapons, for
whatever purpose, someone’s gonna get hurt. If you think this is worse because this time
it involved Australian citizens, think again.
I think it's (potentially) worse this time because of the potential to use it as a pretext for kicking off a 3rd world war.... Being that we already know whodunnit, and aren't allowed to even table the notion that it could have been an accident at the hands of the Ukrainian military I'd say we're spoiling for a fight with Russia over domination of European gas supplies....
ReplyDeleteAre you saying that we know that the Ukrainian military did it?
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