By Bob Walsh
PACOVILLA Corrections blog
July 17, 2014
In this case over there is Europe, specifically the Ukraine. A Malaysian 777 jet liner with 295 souls on board was shot down, apparently with a missile. Ukrainian “separatists” claimed they had shot down another Ukrainian cargo jet immediately after it happened, leading to speculation that somebody screwed the pooch and they accidentally hit the wrong plane, or had an issue with target identification.
I wonder how much red ink Obama and John Kerry will splash around trying to impress somebody (anybody) into thinking that we actually have a handle on what is going on or any actual ability to influence events. Some people just don’t give a shit about empty threats and hash-tag twitter assaults. I strongly suspect Vladimir Putin is one of those people.
NOTE: President Obama spoke briefly on this matter at 1100. He stated that this “might be” a terrible tragedy. I guess the degree of tragedy will depend on how many American citizens were aboard the downed airliner.
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