Lonewolf 50,
Cannot disagree with your comments. However, many years ago when the Vincennes incident occured I was employed by a country in the ME and, about that time, was flying a a maritime patrol sortie in the Gulf.
Part of the deal was to maintain a listening watch on 243.0. After about 30 minutes of hearing a constant (and somewhat threatening) challenge to civilian aircraft by an USN vessel, I queried with him if he realised that he was positioned below the intersection of two long established airways and that civilian aircraft (by and large) did not possess UHF. Long pause - answer in the negative - and some while later the challenge was being repeated about 60 nms further south !!
No-one rules the world, let us be sensible!
Bill