Skip to main content

Plane Shot Down Over Eastern Ukraine

 
What a horrible tragedy!  You probably know by now that a passenger jet full of approximately 300 passengers was shot down over eastern Ukraine.  Although this article states that non-state actors don't usually have access to missiles that can go up past 10,000 feet, I wouldn't be surprised if Russia gave rebels in Ukraine some advanced weaponry.  (If it is true that this was shot down by a military, then that is completely outrageous.)

If Russian-backed rebels are the culprit, then this is one more reason why rebels should never be supported by any side in (nearly) any conflict.  Rebels are not like states.  Rebels can do as they please without the consequences that would befall a national government.  This goes for almost all rebels everywhere.  Of course, Russia is trying to dictate what Ukraine can and can't do.  On the other hand, the United States is supporting rebels in Syria because Russia has its only Mediterranean military port in Syria.  And we know that in trying to dislodge Russia from that area, we are feeding a monster that is worse than the Assad regime.

The thing to remember is that most nations (except North Korea and maybe a few others) act in a somewhat responsible way, at least outwardly.  They don't want bad press.  Rebels aren't that way.  They don't care about bad press.  Thus, with similar weapons, they become much more deadly and frightening than recognized states.   Let's stop feeding them...even when we think they will forward our national interests.  They probably won't, anyway.  All we're doing is making the world more dangerous.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/10974671/Malaysia-Airlines-plane-crash-in-Ukraine-Analysis.html
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Sokal-style hoaxes work for religious postmodernists, but (post) modernism is the real hoax Modernism in art and architecture, and postmodernism in philosophy are, like religion, insults to human intelligence.  Unfortunately, many people fall for their hollow propaganda. The "Sokal Affair" was a hoax whereby a man called Alan Sokal submitted a postmodern-sounding article to a postmodern journal.  It turns out that the English you hear isn't just unintelligible to you, but it's unintelligible to the people at the journal as well.  But if it's unintelligible, it must be profound, right?  The journal quickly accepted it, not knowing that it was all fake B.S.  They then got embarrassed when they were told that it was pompous-sounding drivel. Religion has done the same thing.  When people can't understand something, they generally think it's much more profound than if they can understand it.  If a priest speaks Latin, wears some weird costume, and sp...
Post a Comment
Read more

The Islamic State has beheaded at least 21 Christians in Libya.

Whenever a Muslim brings up the Crusades, I have to laugh to myself.  Christians have done horrible things, including in later crusades against Constantinople and the Cathars in particular.  However, get this.  The Islamic State militants said, "Safety for you crusaders is something you can only wish for" right before butchering Egyptian Christians. It seems that many Muslims haven't taken a single history class.  If they had, they would have known that Christians existed in Egypt for 400 years before Islam.  (Heck, they were even around to murder Hypatia, perhaps the last major ancient female philosopher.)  It was the Muslims who were the "Crusaders"...yet almost nobody will admit to this.  Muslims instigated a merciless war against Christian Egyptians until they were overcome and under Islamic domination.  They did this to people across the world, from Spain to India...massacring any who resisted.  They tried to destroy the Byzaintine Em...
Post a Comment
Read more
Fighting Klanophobia I'm always hurt when I see bigots offend groups of people.  All too often, people paint a group, "the other" with a broad brush and stereotype them as being evil, even though the crimes that are associated with them are only committed by a tiny minority fringe element within the larger group. Such is the case with the Ku Klux Klan.  Most people don't like to associate with them.  There is a lot of prejudice directed towards that group, particularly among blacks and Jews, but this hate is widespread.  If you see a klansman wearing his cultural garb, how do you feel?  Do you become nervous?  Do you think that he'll do something violent?  If so, you're part of the problem. The KKK is an organization of peace.  Most of its members are peaceful and only want to go about their lives without being harmed...like most people in this world.  Sure, there are a few members who preach hate, but that's true in almost every grou...
Post a Comment
Read more