Now that the latest ceasefire seems to be in effect, so Hamas can restock and reposition its snipers, don’t you know, we need to consider some places on this side of the Atlantic that could use rocketing.
But not Austin, as J.D. at Mouth of the Brazos wants. His other choices, such as D.C. and San Francisco, would be fine with me. I would add Houston, also, home of the awful Astros. And Dallas. Just because.
UPDATE: So much for ill-timed jokes. The missile shoot-down of the Malaysian airliner over Ukraine certainly isn’t funny, though it was bound to happen sooner or later. Twenty-three Americans killed, according to some sources.
MORE: According to the manifest released Saturday, and available at Fox, none of the passengers were Americans. The majority were Dutch.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
Yep, and many people consider the airliner shoot-down to be a clear-cut case of a sophisticated Russian missile complex employed. Unlike your usual RPG rocket handled by any goon, this case smells as a pro job.
Either the Russians or the Ukrainians and given the reported location of the missile battery, it was the Russians. Not that they’ll ever admit it or we will ever press them on it since it wasn’t one of ours. Although you do have to wonder what the airliner was doing crossing a war zone. Did the pilots think they were safe so high up? Duh.