You See Where Fighting Gets You...?

Something like this was bound to happen sooner or later, wasn't it? The fighting in Ukraine and Gaza; people at each others' throats; and, of course, the inevitable political maneuvering going on in the shadows behind.
In World War 1 there was the sinking of the Lusitania. In World War 2 it was Pearl Harbor. Now we have the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17.
295 innocent people; 80 of them children; had their lives needlessly snuffed out by a missile fired from a war zone in the Ukraine. It was as much a terror attack as 9/11, 7/7 or the Mumbai shootings; except that this time people are accusing each other of being responsible rather than claiming it for themselves. But, at the end of the day, what it all boils down to is greedy fucking politicians carrying on their machinations and using civilians as a human touch-paper to launch the fireworks of condemnation and grease the wheels of all-out war.
Oh, they've been wanting this for years. The world has moved on and changed a lot since the second world war. There are geo-political assets to plunder; tactical strongholds to establish and natural resources to steal, all in the name of peace, stability and freedom. And don't forget all the shiny new weapons they've got. They've been waiting ages to try them all out, and the operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have given them a taste for it.
I have always said that if the people who declared war actually had to fight it as well, then war would disappear overnight.
But they don't, do they. They send poor people out to kill and be killed. They launch false flag operations to instil fear into the population and gain support for their wicked campaigns.
We see our corrupt overlords rushing to get their faces on television and express their horror and condemnation at such a terrible event. "Our thoughts and prayers..." gets repeated over and over like some grotesque chant of insincerity.
I'm waiting for the conspiracy nuts to start throwing out their stories connecting MH17 to the disappearance of MH370 in March. David Icke will no doubt "connect the dots" and emerge with a picture of Jewish Lizards swapping the two planes and then shooting one down as a part of their plan to establish the New World Order and prevent us all from waking up and seeing that we're living in The Matrix.
Anyway, the point I'm making in my long-winded, barely-legible way is that when people fight, it's always the innocents that inevitably suffer.
To the people on flight MH17 I say this: God speed, good friends. May the angels take you in their arms and whisk you off to that better place we all dream of.
To those responsible for the destruction of MH17 I say this: I pray that you die in a flame-filled nightmare before falling to the place that surely awaits you in the bowels of hell.
Rant over.