I'm having a hard time getting too worked up over this. It is a horrible thing, but on the other hand, this wasn't a situation where a Russian fighter jet shot down a 747 with airline markings after making clear visual contact. I simply see no upside to the Russians shooting down a jetliner and there is no reason they would do it intentionally.
So, it is a war zone. Right or wrong, good or bad, there is a war going on there right now and that schit happens in a war zone. I remember well when we zapped an Iranian passenger jet in the Persian Gulf not all that long after an Iraqi Mirage sent an Exocet through the side of the USS Stark during the Iraq/Iran war.
Yup. Somebody just screwed up big time. I definitely don't see this as a terrorist attack or any other intentional act.
