Tuesday, 14 January 2020
An extraordinary swipe
Justin Trudeau had to say something of course, but this seems particularly weak and particularly dishonest.
Justin Trudeau has today blamed the US 'escalation' in the Middle East for the Iranian shoot-down of a passenger jet in an extraordinary swipe at Donald Trump.
Echoing what Iranian officials have said, Trudeau said the dozens of Canadian crash victims would be 'home with their families' but for the tensions started by the US killing of Qassem Soleimani.
The Canadian PM said the international community had to 'manage the tensions in the region that are brought about by US actions'.
After initially denying involvement, Iran admitted on Saturday that it had shot down the jet in error just hours after launching missile attacks on US bases in Iraq.
Tehran said today it had made multiple arrests as president Hassan Rouhani promised to punish those responsible.
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Difficult to guess why he thought he had to say this. He might have a lot of Iranians living in Canada. He might have calculated that criticising Trump always plays well with his woke voters. Maybe he lacks the skills to give a balanced view, so falls back on what is temporarily easy to say.
If he has made a conscious judgement that acting sad and sensitive on TV (like Ardern in NZ) increases his popularity, then good luck to the Machiavellian fraudster. If he actually believed it, I fear for Canada and the West.
Sam - I think you hit the nail on the head with - "Maybe he lacks the skills to give a balanced view, so falls back on what is temporarily easy to say." In spite of his general political standpoint he seems to lack anything resembling genuine empathy.
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