throughout the world. let me state as plainly as i can, there was absolutely no justification either legal or moral for what the soviets did. one newspaper in india said, if every passenger plane is fair game for home air forces, it will be the end to civil aviation as we know it. >> joining me now fox news military analyst kt mcfarland. the korean airlines flight 007 that was one incident, that was 1983, there was a prior incident e in 1978 a korean airlines flight 902. >> right. >> where the russians shot it down. >> but what happened in 1983 and i worked for president reagan then, i was at the pentagon, it was a game changer for him. he understood at that point the soviet union was not going to compromise. that they couldn't be trusted. that he would have to deal with them very differently. and starting at that point he set out to do different things. what did he do? he redoubled efforts to do the missile -- star wars missile