Incompetence

Writing at American Greatness, Roger Kimball ruminates about the shoot-down of the Ukraine Air jet by Iran, followed by their denials, their eventual partial admission of guilt, and the resulting popular uprisings.

Fun facts: a Tomahawk cruise missile, with booster, is a bit over 20-feet-long, with a wingspan of less than nine feet. A Boeing 737-800 is a few inches shy of 130 feet long with a wingspan of nearly 113 feet. Students of interpreting radar cross-sections will find that interesting.

Frances Townsend, a former Homeland Security adviser to President George W. Bush, expressed a thought that will have occurred to many observers. “A country that cannot competently operate its air defense system aspires to possess #nuclear weapons! Really?! Just contemplate that for a moment.”

Mental image of letting small children play with loaded guns, a recipe for disaster. I don’t blame the airline for immediately ceasing service to Iran. Iran’s dreams of empire are as ungrounded in reality as a Pacific islander cargo cult.