"This is something that never, never happens, and it's unlikely to happen again. "<p>This wasn't an equipment failure or a natural disaster, so I don't really agree with this line of thinking.<p>"But we are not going to call for the government to go and catch the perpetrators or go to war."<p>If this was an intentional act, we do need to do something about it (so it doesn't happen again). Extreme pacifism just leads to bully nations like Russia taking over other nations with absolutely no intervention.
This one is no mystery. There are deleted statements for this from the separatists.<p>1. Russian government gives BUK to separatists. (what could go wrong?). We have deleted tweets from the separatists bragging about their newly acquired BUK and youtube videos of the BUK being driven around.<p>2. Separatists think they are shooting down a Ukrainian transport plane. They brag about shooting down a plane at the time the plane went down. They alert journalists who go to the site and are surprised to find bodies and passports. The videos are on youtube.<p>So if the Dutch or Dutch government are not mad at the Russians, then dunno what it would take.
Why present for debate the casual comments made on the spur of the moment about this tragedy by a few travelers. As they said, they are literally, 'not America'. Fact! Why read something into it?
If someone got punched in the face in front of you and then looked at you and said "I'm not going to do anything, the chances of that happening again are slim and I'm not some brutish American" would you be impressed or would you think they're a little crazy?