John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN CHECKPOINT ASIA
“US Diplomats Warn Airliners Risk Being ‘Misidentified’ in Persian Gulf
“US "misidentified" an Iranian airliner in 1988, killing 290 people”
I remember that disgraceful event well.
George H W Bush said he'd never apologize for the United States no matter what the facts, even to the needless, careless killing of almost three hundred people. Isn't that a rather god-like pose to strike?
I think it tells us something important. "Uber alles" stuff. Old Prescott Bush, who made the family fortune in banking and entered politics, after all, was a definite Nazi sympathiser.
Of course, a second horror later at Lockerbie, Scotland, whoever actually did it, was revenge for the Iranian airliner, and the American warship's brave captain is really at least in part responsible for both mass killings.
Boy, the US does decorate people for some mighty strange achievements.
The ship's captain being decorated for stupidly killing 290 people ranks right up there with the Medal of Freedom awarded to Madeleine "Mass Child Killer" Albright and Joe "Extrajudicial Killing Program" Biden.
And, of course, the current American warning to planes flying in the Persian Gulf is completely inappropriate.
There is no state of war. The warning represents unwarranted intimidation of Iran and of peaceful civilians and businesses in the region.
But who cares what you think? We're America, and we do as we please, with no apologies, ever.
