you are killin me toad
i'm going to assume your sarcasm is intended to be good natured.
you actualllllly expect me to believe that we honestly thought belenko was trying to illegally import military aircraft?
are you a lawyer? - if not you should be because respectfully my friend, that is ludicrous-it's one of those capital spin jobs "we gotta say something" even though it does not match actual intent. intent is important imo. finding a neat loophole does not negate the intent. besides, consider the note he handed to japanese guards:
"........As soon as he landed in Japan, the
defecting Russian pilot Victor Belenko attempted to communicate with the Japanese bystanders. He gave them a note in which
he intended to say, “Contact a representative of the American intelligence service. Conceal and guard the aircraft. Do not allow anyone near it.”
oh yeah, i guess they dropped the "i'm trying to import it" part eh comrade...? i can see i wont convince you so i wont try. i'm quite stuck on the position that we are applying a double standard.
my point is that i think everyone should do a little exercise when things like this happen:
how would it be if the situation was reversed?
i dont think people are being honest about their responses.
can you tell me straight faced that if the absolute latest frmr soviet fighter was in front of us right now, emergency declared, that we wouldnt wriggle up an excuse to study it?
"gee i really want to study it but the law sz i'm not s'posta"
you would have a freshly scrubbed boy scout:
"here mr china sir, we found your airplane, we didnt touch nuthin and i even gave er an extra coat of wax free of charge!"
i doubt it, but at this point it doesnt matter so much. things have deteriorated imo. if war comes to war my bullets will be right next to yours and every bit as deadly and committed, make no mistake. until that point i will question everything i hear because leaders lie and good america comes form skeptical americans.
i also want us to play globally and by the same rules we expect others to play by. we'd strip it, we cant expect them not to, we should have given it to them and concentrated on the crew instead of posturing right off the bat. if they didnt play ball we could have always retalliated economoically, at least no lives would be at stake.in fact keeping this a secret altogether would have prevented the need to save face.
nietzsche warned the germans of arrogance in apparant superiority. they didnt heed his warning, and in fact tried to warp his words to support their plans, and look where it got them. just when you think you are on top and winning is the time to be most humble and i dont see that in our country - that worries me because it makes other countries want to say "look at me i', not doing what you say see see". geez what a long boring post -
