Lent Post: Three-in-a-Day: Per Request, My Take on the Malaysian Aircraft

Salvete.

Before the conversation goes away, I think I'm going to put in my two cents about the missing Malaysian aircraft.

For one, The Twilight Zone presents a "humorous" theory in "The Odyssey of Flight 33." Oddly enough, I heard The Twilight Zone mentioned on CNN via The Blaze. An interviewee on FOX suggests that the plane's computers were hacked into, and there is, of course, the potential of terrorism looming in most if not all theories.

Personally, as long as the jetliner is of no threat to the United States of America or most of the West, I don't care about the jetliner. It is the fate of a handful of passengers and (maybe) the pilots at stake; while inaction would make the nations involved look cowardly, more people have been put in danger and/or killed in individual instances, and more people may be put at risk by searching for the jetliner. If the plane has the fuel or is given fuel, it would likely be shot out of the sky before it endangers the citizens of the West. Israel has caught on, but I believe that the rest of the West should understand that they should secure their borders more effectively, at least temporarily.

Terrorists are patient. They wait for a time to strike. The Malaysian aircraft may reappear in a few hours or in a few decades. With all of the resources and attention spent on this single aircraft, we could prepare for when the aircraft suddenly appears near one of our greatest landmarks. Perhaps we will never know. For now, we should simply prepare.