I can vote in an election, I can pick who is election and hope enough people agree with me.I can say yeah or nay to ballot initiatives and hope enough people agree with me.
What would you call a civil war?
I would think that it would be common sens to not fly civilian aircraft over a war zone due to the fact it can be mistaken for a enemy aircraft and shot down. Aircraft drop bombs, fire cannons and all sorts of other weapons at troops or even transport troops.
More like a accident or case of mistaken identity.
V.A. scandal and illegals from central American coming into the country just to name a few.
Your one vote does nothing. When was the last time a single vote made a difference? Never is the word that comes to mind. If you did not vote nothing would change. We'd still have Obama as president. Bush would have been elected. Clinton would have been elected. Your one non-vote would not have changed any of that.
There were no restrictions on flying over that part of the Ukraine. The flight path was approved, and not unique by any means.
There's a conflict for sure going on. Is it internationally known and called a "civil war" right now? It is truly classified as a war? I get that it' a semantics game, but since regular commercial air flights were not restricted from flying over the area I assume it was not considered a flat out "war". Again, I'll agree it's semantics basically. The people fighting and being killed in the Ukraine are surely viewing it as a war.
As far as the "distraction" thing.... I honestly thought you were above that kind of garbage.
That kind of rhetoric is for the conspiracy people and nut-wing righties.
Was the world cup soccer a distraction?
How about the Baseball All Star game?
You can call any world event a distraction if you wish, but that's simply ridiculous hyper-partisan crap.
It's a tragic world-wide event. Whether it was an accident (mistaken identity of civilian craft for an enemy craft), or an outright attack on a civilian target doesn't change what happened to 300 innocent people.
Do you have friends, co-workers, and/or family members who sometimes travel overseas? Do they sometimes fly to get from point A to point B?
Surely you must. So I fail to see how there couldn't be some concern for what's happened.
You might not be able to do anything about what's already happened, but that doesn't mean it should be brushed off as a "distraction".
That's just so arrogant and mean.