re: Malaysian Airliner with 295 people on board shot down by SAM missle

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The plane being shot down yesterday is a direct result of our foreign policy. Putin has called our bluff to the point that he is not afraid of this administration. Until something is done which will adversely impact him, we will continue to create havoc in the region. Yes, the missile was not intended to shoot down a commercial plane....but our administration's continued policy of not doing JACK shite to stop him set up the events that occcured yesterday.

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“the administration is pathetic…. We didn’t elect a dictionary. We elected a President and it’s time for him to act.”

That was George Will talking about...the Reagan Administration's response to the downing of KAL 007 by the Soviets.

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Reagan demanded an apology to the world and continued a number of sanctions — but he decided not to end grain sales to the USSR or to suspend arms control talks. ...Even at the height of the Cold War, however — and keeping in mind that the flight had departed from the U.S., with dozens of American passengers, including a sitting member of Congress – Reagan told a National Security Meeting that “we’ve got to protect against overreaction. Vengeance isn’t the name of the game.”

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