Canadians are back on my list...
He's grieving, and rightfully so. But that grief can be manifested as anger, and is easily transferred to parties who had nothing to do with a plane being downed, even as he tries to make sense of something senseless and avoidable..
For instance, we don't know that the Iranians weren't going to launch missiles at those targets anyway.
There seems to have been no effort by Iran to keep commercial traffic out of something they anticipated to be a conflict zone in that time frame.
That a climbing aircraft with absolutely no stealth capability and of that size, not releasing ordnance nor taking evasive maneuvers, and following known flight lanes from a civil airport was shot down reflects that either the Iranians on the ground were trigger happy, scared to incontinence, or intentionally downed the plane hoping to spin it against the US in the global media somehow. It could have been avoided with an airline flight schedule.
These are a man's personal reflections, regardless of who he is, and he doesn't speak for all Canada nor claim to.
He's upset, a colleague (who is likely a friend) lost his family, just like that, because their plane was shot down.
That was avoidable.
He needs to direct his anger toward those deserving of it.
The US didn't down the plane. It provided evidence of who did.
