Do you believe something that happened, say, ten years ago holds as much relevance to the current situation for most people as something from a week ago?
I'm saying that you can keep shifting the blame forever since it's been a constant game of retaliation that has been going on without stop for decades.
Also, the attack on US assets wasn't a decade ago, it was at the end december last year, about two weeks ago.
This is why humans shouldn't have weapons this powerful.
Iran as a country didn't shoot this down, a human did likely a single or couple of people who made a horrific mistake and it has happened multiple times now throughout history. Humanity is fucking stupid, we waste all our time killing each other and building weapons and killing even more innocent people.
Overall just an awful, awful situation all caused by stupidity.
It wasn't just the SAM operator's fault, it was also Iran's failure to close off their airspace to civilian aircrafts. They fucked up at multiple levels.
Trump's blame comes from instigating the situation in the first place. Iran's blame is twofold. First, having people manning the guns who are practically in a panic on what kind of enemy response they're going to get, to the point where they literally start shooting blindly at the first thing they see in the air, and second, for not having the most basic of common sense to ground all flights until it was known what kind of response was coming, if any. Because anything in the air, regardless of what it is, is in serious danger in a situation like that. Especially at night, where there's no visual confirmation of your target. Sure, military radar can pick up civilian transponders and know what they're looking at, but the targeting systems on the guns and missiles don't have that capability. So it boils down to gross incompetence, at many levels of the Iranian military and the government.
You could easily say that Iran is to blame for instigating the strike on their general by forcing a US response to the strike on the Kirkuk base going by that logic. This is the problem with this part of the world:
Everything is a response to the act of another party. Playing the blame game could lead you multiple decades back.
This is why the blame should go to the perpetrator of this act. In this case, it's Iran.
Well said. It's odd to see people across a range of threads about Iran (notably the ones about them hijacking tankers and trying to mine other tankers) take on such a sympathetic stance toward the Iranian government. The same posters pretend to care about civil rights, homophobia, freedom of/from religion, women's rights in other threads but are shockingly silent about Iran's horrific policies with those when they leap to its defense. It's honestly puzzling.
Not that puzzling. People want ammo,
any ammo to shit on Trump (which is understandable considering that he's a prick). This is a "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" situation. You'd think the orange shitstain does enough fuckups and terrible things on his own to not have to pin the the blame on him with this one, but apparently not.
What I find the most disgusting is people using the death of these poor people as a pawn to fuel their hate. It's just... gross.
