RE: Malaysian airlines plane shot down over Ukraine
July 17, 2014 at 11:16 pm
(This post was last modified: July 17, 2014 at 11:18 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
It is, but we live in a shitty world. If we didn't, there wouldn't be any "generals" to worry about their careers in the first place. Officers have to make snap judgements with limited information that sometimes leads to hellish consequences. Had he not acted, in the face of an actual threat (theorizing an incursion), there would still be people calling bullshit on his decision - possibly for the very same reasons. Rock and a hard place.
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