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The Obama Administration is playing a very stupid and dangerous game with Russia.
Turkey would not have shot the plane without NATO and of course USA clearance.
If it was trespassing over their airspace, and ignored warnings - they had the right. Not saying it was the smart thing to do but they have every right to do it without the "clearance" of any other nation.
"Decades of careful diplomacy and nail-biting inaction during the potentially world-annihilating nuclear arms race of the 1950s, 60s and 70s appears to have been sacrificed in a few brief seconds by Turkey.
During the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, the deployment of nuclear weapons in western Europe in the 1980s and many other causes of strife, NATO did not take on the Soviet Union or Russia directly and Moscow did not attack any NATO country.
That all changed when Turkish air force jets shot down a Russian bomber Tuesday -- the first time a NATO country has taken such action since 1952."
NATO and Putin: Downed Russian bomber is big threat - CNN.com
The "right" at what costs. They should have exercised greater care and consulted with their NATO counterparts like the USA.
As I said in my post - it might not have been smart, but they had the right if the invading plane was not responding to them.