Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Lessons were learned. Morally we obviously want to avoid this kind of thing. Practically speaking, the geopolitical optics are bad.
But this one was 100% on Iran for flying airliners into hot combat that THEY initiated. No sympathy.
The Vincennes screwed up. Pure and simple. You wrote it off as “fog of war” and then have the arrogance to dismiss Iran Air for being there in the first place out of Bandar Abbas. No sympathy is the typical arrogance of Americans that is hated by those overseas. And by seas, I mean by water. Not by what you visually see. Just wanted to clarify that.