US Arrogance

I was watching Air Crash Investigation on National Geographic Channel last night. The episode was the one where a commercail airline Iran Air Flight 655 was shot down by US misiles in 1988, killing all 290 passengers and crew on board. See here for a summarised acount by Wikipedia.

I am just amazed by the arrogance of the USA.

1. Firstly, the US vessel was not where it was supposed to be, in Iranian waters.

2. The US crew were negligent. One officer had negligently thought that the Iranian airliner was descending when in fact it was ascending at all times. Nobody bothered to verify this.

3. The military inquiry formed to look into the matter found no negligence on the part of the crew of the US navy ship.

4. The US Navy ship attempted to contact the Iranian airliner 7 times on the radio military frequency and 3 times on the civial distress frequency and during the latter, they addressed the airliner as "unidentified F14". Are they stupid or are they stupid?

5. Instead of being reprimanded and dishonourably discharged for killing civilians, they were given a hero's welcome and awarded medals for their stupidity and fatal negligence.

6. The US military inquiry had the cheek to push some blame on the Iranian authorities for allowing commercial flight near battle zones. What the...

7. The US never apologised. Then vice-president George Bush was quoted as saying,"I will never apologise for the United States of America, ever. I don't care what it has done. I don't care what the facts are."

Like I said, US arrogance never cease to amaze me.