Iran has admitted that it accidentally shot down Ukraine flight 752. Will anyone notice that the leaders of the countries most affected by this tragedy gave it room to do so?
Ukraine, Sweden and Canada responded to the crash with solemnity and control. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in particular, met with the press and expressed a deep resolve to get at the truth. You could tell that he hadn't slept much. It seemed like he was imagining how he'd feel to lose a loved one so terribly and suddenly. (In fact, he knows that experience all too well.)
Now that Iran has confessed, Ukraine and the Western powers can work with it to send in investigators and resources. There's a lot still to be resolved, but baby steps can turn into bigger steps — and since Iran is not some podunk country but rather a heavily armed nation of more than 80 million, this is a good thing.
Benedict Donald, of course — child that he is — wouldn't have been capable of such restraint. Another reason to be glad that no Americans were on this doomed flight.
But truth be told, no one should be relieved not to have been on this plane. The passengers who were deserved to get to their destinations in one piece. Iran fired the surface-to-air missile, but wouldn't have been so hair-trigger to begin with had Trump not set these awful events into motion with a reckless assassination.
As Trudeau said, "I am outraged and furious that families across this country are grieving the loss of their loved ones, that the Iranian-Canadian community is suffering so greatly, that all Canadians are shocked and appalled at the senseless loss of life." As he moves forward to bind his nation's wounds, it's pretty clear who on the North American continent is a true leader, and who is not. We cats HISS and PURR at the same time.
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