Race but we start off with that breaking news. Investigators right now, trying to determine what brought down this russian passenger jet, packed with tourists. All 224 people onboard, including 17 children, were killed. The flight taking off from an egyptian resort sharm el sheikh, it was headed to st. Petersburg, russia, and now an isis affiliate is claiming its responsible. Should that claim be taken seriously . Well talk to our experts momentarily. But first, abcs Alex Marquardt with the very latest on the investigation. Good morning, alex. Good morning, martha. Egy egypts aviation official tell us this morning, there was no indication that anything was wrong. Russian and egyptian investigators are right now c b combing through the crash site where the field of debris stretches around five miles. The black boxes have been located and sent for analysis, which should give some clarity on what happened during those 23 minutes that the plane was in the air. The copilots exwife told russ
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But all of us learned a great deal along the way about our profession, about the middle east, and about the promise of american leadership. Through sams remarkable journey and my own checkered thirtythree year career in the foreign service, i have learned that the middle east is a place where pessimists seldom lack for either company or validation, where skeptics hardly ever seem wrong. It is a place where american policymakers often learn humility the hard way, a place where you can most easily see the wisdom in Winston Churchills famous comment that what he liked most about americans was that they usually did the right thing in the end. They just liked to exhaust all the alternatives first. Ive learned that stability is not a static phenomenon, and that regimes which do not offer their citizens a sense of political dignity and economic possibility ultimately become brittle and break. Ive learned that change in the middle east is rarely neat or linear, but often messy and cruel, and d