A New Perspective on Cost of War
On Feb 21, 7:18*am, "Robert Green" wrote:
If you recall, the Sovs blasted flight KAL007 out of the sky with a US Congressman aboard. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_...nes_Flight_007 I don't think our side ever dreamed that the Sovs would respond to an overflight with a shoot down. That flight was probably a test of Russian missile defense systems and their ability to discriminate between passenger and military aircraft. *Too many very weird happened that night for it to have been an accident. *The Congressman was there in all probability, to secure quick release of the passengers if they were *forced* down. *Instead, the Sovs *shot* them down. *We didn't understand the human factors of the equation. *That Sov pilot would have been executed soon after landing had he done anything but shoot the KAL passenger jet down. KAL007 was another sad intelligence failure but one we learned from, I think. You know, you have an incredible knack where you can't make a single post without going stark raving mad. The first part of the post is rational. Then you go totally off the rails with a looney conspiracy theory without basis. In this case the obvious need is that it just couldn't be that one side made an innocent mistake and the other was an evil empire with a long record of having no regard for human life. No, in a desperate attempt to get to some kind of moral equivalence, you conjure up that a Korean civilian 747 full of passengers was deliberately flown into Russian airspace on some kind of military mission. The only intelligence failure here is obviously your own. |
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