What a heinous crime perpetrated by whoever it is in shooting down a civilian airlines plane. The matter calls for a United Nations intervention. This is another example of Russian American struggle for hegemony. Cold war period may be over; but it has reincarnated in an equally sinister manner. The problem is that these nations can not sit quiet given their super power interests. Anerica and Europe have always been adventurists creating tensions throughout the world in last few hundred years. They of course have a different perspective. There benevolence gets malevolent. Of course this is the history of civilization more or less. Agrandisement has run over societies with different rules of the game. The result is there for all to see. Human life is rendered too cheap. A Buddha, a Christ and of course Jain philosophy have not been able to stop men's addiction to the macabre. Sordid indeed. To come back to the point, a new kind of terrorism has been unleashed endangering the most innocent travellers.