"Wonder if we will ever really know the truth."
In war, truth has always been the first casualty. These days there is no truth, just points of view, based on politics, not logic, for the general public. All governments lie to both their own people and to other nations to advance the careers of politicians and the wealth of those who back them. The average person, be they a passenger on the plane, a civilian on the ground, or a third party in another country are pawns in a game were only the Kings matter.
I'm of the opinion that the US, the EU, NATO, and Russia all know exactly what happened and why (Russian provided system, provided to blunt Ukrainian air power, mistakenly targeted MH17). They all agree that the unvarnished truth about the cause of dead of these 298 people, as well as thousands of other in Ukraine, isn't a truth their public will meekly accept. The mutual economic benefits of minimizing and obscuring this event are all too obvious to all parties.
The only lesson to be learned from this tragedy is that civilian aircraft must stay out of the engagement envelope of modern missile systems. However, I fully expect this too will be soon forgotten in the name of economic benefits. This will happen again.
Last edited by jmmilner; 9th Sep 2014 at 19:58.