The Question Not Put to the Admiral

Following remarks, yesterday, at the Commonwealth Club by Former Chief of US Naval Operations, Admiral Gary Roughead (SEE: The Shocking Direction That the US Military Is Headed). A question and answer period ensued.

Unfortunately, the questions are moderated.You have to write the questions on a card and they are then filtered by a moderator. The moderator yesterday was Jeffrey Bleich, Former U.S. Ambassador to Australia; Partner, Munger, Tolles & Olson and former Special Counsel to the President (Obama).

Bleich seemed to have worked his way through all the cards last evening, but apparently didn't deem it worthy to ask the former naval commander to comment on this request I submitted to the admiral.

Could you compare and contrast the US Navy shootdown of the Iranian civilian Air Flight 655 to the shootdown over Ukraine of Malaysian civilian flight MH17.

-RW