I am very gullible , Keith but not as gullible as the people who got on board that plane.

I assume they were gullible but it could be the case that they were not advised at check-in that they were going to be flying over a war zone whose airspace was controlled by "terrorists". Perhaps they hadn't been warned before getting aboard that these terrorists were in possession of Russian-supplied missiles capable of bringing down their aircraft . It could be they were not aware of the fact that the US civil aviation authority had forbidden flights over the Ukraine war zone .

I posted that thing I was sent by a facebook friend to give some indication of what is being said outside of the Western media, which had already concluded within 12 hours that the downing of the aircraft was the work of "Putin's missile". The pro-Russian piece sounds reasonable but I don't have the expertise to judge . I was hoping that the military types here might give their opinions.