Originally Posted by
NutLoose
I’m sorry but who is more screwed up in their view of this, me or you Nil.
I am not justifying anything wicked that is being done, just mulling over the Forum's approach to this interesting subject.
For instance: a NATO ally crashes and burns. Immediate comments would be "I'll raise a glass" or "Blue skies" because an aviator has perished in his machine. In my view rightly so. What we don't know is that he may have been a racist, wife-beating paedophile when he wasn't flying.
Now a Russian IL-76 crashes and burns and the immediate response is cheers and a desire for it to happen again. What we don't know was whether these were 4 decent men, good husbands and fathers, apolitical in their views and probably were flying the IL-76 long before Putin came to power.
Therefore, my point is, should we allow an aviation tragedy to be coloured by the national flag that the aviators happened to operate under, and the politics of the national leader that they might despise, when we know absolutely nothing about the individuals involved except that they were fellow aviators?