Oh, okay. As long as he only murders people so he can get what he wants, he's clearly just misunderstood. Killing innocent people just so you can get what you want isn't the very definition of "evil" at all!
No, in 2016 it isn't anymore. Not when real-life airplane hijackers in the same position as Korshunov decide to take that plane and use it as a weapon to kill thousands more innocent people on the ground in addition to those on board, without providing our government with any opportunities for negotiation. Not when people with access to automatic weapons go into gay nightclubs and just shoot everyone on the spot. Korshunov had control of a plane and all of the automatic weapons in it and did nothing close to what Mohamed Atta or Omar Mateen did. No one is saying Korshunov was a good man. He was a bad man. But evil is a harsh word that is usually reserved for the other guys I mentioned or for people like Hitler, Mao, Stalin, etc.
Korshunov could have killed innocent people on any other flight if that was all he wanted to do (assuming he was crafty enough to somehow get automatic weapons onto a regular flight). But the reason he boarded Air Force One was because his objective was not to kill innocent people, his objective was to put a gun to President Marshall's head and force him to release Radek. If he or his men had gotten hold of the President when they first took over the plane he wouldn't have given a rat's ass if all the other passengers escaped, and might have even preferred it that way so as to avoid anyone else being the savior of the plane. It wasn't until he was under the impression that the President escaped that he felt the other hostages were the only bargaining chips he had left. He had a much happier tone in his voice when he declared to the Veep that he held the President hostage than when he had 50 people who were not the President.
With all the horrible things that were said about Radek, I wonder if Korshunov really felt his country would be better off with Radek in charge again. Or, was he just trying to get 15 minutes of fame by getting the President to renege on his way too cocky "we will not negotiate" speech?
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Drooch (5333)
6 years ago
What the hell is wrong with you? He killed innocent people to get what he wanted, and his takeover began with gunning down lots of innocent men, including the pilots, before he even started threatening hostages. He’s totally evil and your excuses for his actions are creepy.
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