Should the downing of this airliner have any long term effect on our relationship with Russia?

[yurbud]

I can't see any advantage for Russia or the Ukrainian rebels (or for Ukraine for that matter) in intentionally downing that airliner.

Russia in particular knows that the NATO and the US are already in high dudgeon and waiting for an excuse to isolate them further, and I refuse to believe that Putin is a retarded action movie villain, who is on a suicide mission to earn an invasion or assassination by the West as the right convinced us Saddam Hussein was.

Like the case for the Iraq War, I fear that the right questions aren't being asked and the deck is being stacked toward escalation.

Should this incident be a cause for escalating hostility toward Russia as the right wingers and neocons seem to want?

This poll is NOT necessarily a criticism of Obama's handling of this since he has shown some restraint and discretion so far.

14 votes, 0 passes | Time left: Unlimited
	YES. This underlines that Russia is a dangerous rogue nation.
	10 (71%)
	SORT OF. We should ratchet up hostility until the whole thing is sorted out.
	0 (0%)
	NO. We have made the same mistake with an Iranian airliner and this incident doesn't change the underlying geopolitics
	3 (21%)
	OTHER
	1 (7%)
	0 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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