May the MH17 tragedy change Putin’s policy

The downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 over a rebel separatists-held region in the eastern part of the Ukraine Republic is being condemned worldwide. The Russian-encouraged murderers who shot the plane with Russian-made missiles must be exposed, tried and punished.

The notion that the pilots should be faulted for flying over a conflict-ridden land promotes tolerance for barbaric and lawless behavior. We are not yet a world ruled by savages and criminals. That air space is over a part of Ukraine that has been taken over by Russians--mercenary officers, thugs and soldiers disguised as volunteers, in the style of the Soviet Union’s KGB commandos, together with the Ukraine-born ethnic Russians who work and fight to make that part of Ukraine belong to Russia.