Yesterday, as you already know by now, Malaysian Airlines Flight MH 17 was shot down in the Ukrainian/Russian war zone.  Another 298 innocent people are dead thanks to government stupidity.  A quick scan of the web reveals many pictures from the crash scene and of the victims.  Don’t look at the latter.

(ABC 7, Denver.)

I have no information about this tragedy beyond what’s in the news.  The official story is that pro-Russian “rebels” fired a Russian-made missile at the plane with predictable results.  http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/missile-downs-malaysia-airlines-plane-over-ukraine-killing-298-kiev-blames-rebels/2014/07/18/d30205c8-0e4a-11e4-8c9a-923ecc0c7d23_story.html.

All of the initial reports I heard placed the blame directly on Russia and Vladimir Putin.  Undoubtedly, they share in the blame along with those rebels and all associated state actors.  Yet, I detected some crazed desire to not only blame but to engage Putin over these murders.  Never forget that our own “leadership” is populated by lunatics who would almost gleefully start another war – with a nuclear (Bushy: “nuc-u-lar”) power.  Worse, they would lie to you and expect you to support (indeed die for) their madness.

President Obama rambled on for some time today about the situation.  I have no idea what he said.  When he, or other politicians, speak all I hear is the hum of a warbling air conditioner…  Whatever he said, I am sure it was meaningless and overflowing with hypocrisy.  The globe is covered with American weapons doing similar deeds – things which will never benefit the American people.  Had I been a resident reporter I would have made a statement to El Presidente, rather than ask him a question: “TWA Flight 800.”

This crime deserves our condemnation, not escalation.  For my part, I call on all governments to disband before more people die for nothing.  What say you?