Apparently that makes you sound like an asshole.
Apparently were supposed to be all overly emotional and feign righteous indignation over an event simply because people lost family in a tragic accident...., and not immediately freaking out and calling for a response that could instigate an international incident out of pure, irrational, emotion driven outrage makes us assholes.
well, call me an asshole I guess. Im not going to freak out irrationally just because people lost family members in a tragic accident when no one even knows where to point the finger yet.
It was not a tragic accident.
We knew Russia was inciting revolution in Ukraine and arming terrorists (guess they're not separatists anymore). For 8 months or more this was known. People were too soft on Putin. It was known he gave these same people more sophisticated SAMs a month or so ago. Firstly on this, the Civil Aviation Authority, which would have known this, showed a complete dereliction of duty allowing planes to fly here once it was above 32k feet given that these SAMs have a farm greater range. Secondly, no action was taken against Russia, Israel has been in the news, and the world cup. These terrorists have been shooting down Ukrainian aircraft for months, EU and US have stayed silent.
The Lusitania was not an accident, it was coming. Same with Pearl harbour. This is not quite on same level as the latter but the Lusitania had weapons, albeit small firearms and was warned, this was a case of knowing such a thing could happen, not changing advice to airlines, and the inevitable happening.
In short, it was preventable, strong action needs to be taken now. Putin is all bark and no bite, make him suffer and turn China against him. He should never have signed that 400bn gas deal with China, maybe now an Asian country has been affected they will rethink. Doubt it, the rapacious immoral cu nts