(CNN)Last weekend, on the day I was flying to the Middle East, I woke up to news that a Russian plane had crashed in Egypt. During my flight I stared at the map showing Egypt's Sinai Peninsula and the tiny icon of our plane steering clear of Egypt and of battlegrounds in Syria and Iraq. A few days later, waiting for a different flight at an airport in an Arab country, news arrived that a bomb may have blown up that Russian airplane. In silence, my fellow passengers and I kept our eyes glued to the news as we stepped aboard. The crash of Metrojet Flight 9268 from Egypt's resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh is a tragedy for the victims and their families, but it has implications for all of us --...
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