Something grotesque is unfolding on the left, particularly about Ukrainian Airlines Flight 752, which domestic and foreign governments indicate was likely shot down by an Iranian antiaircraft missile. One-hundred and seventy-six individuals perished as the airplane caught fire and came crashing to the ground in Iran early Wednesday morning.
Those on the left have opted to blame President Trump for the Iranians’ error, searching desperately for any way in which to transform President Trump’s controlled and tactical maneuvers in Iran into a policy quagmire. The crash of Ukrainian Airlines Flight 752 is indeed a tragedy, the culpability for which lies unequivocally with the Iranian regime. To suggest otherwise is to cheapen the deaths of hundreds for the sake of scoring political points against the “bad orange man.”
But the Democrats have shown no compunction about engaging in such an ethically reprehensible endeavor. Trump “broke” the left, and they are doggedly indicating to us that the term “broke” also included snapping their moral compass in half.
On Thursday evening, Democrat Rep. Jackie Speier of California appeared on CNN’s “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer,” declaring that if Iran did shoot down Flight 752, then “this is yet another example of collateral damage from the actions that have been taken in a provocative way by the President of the United States.”
Mayor Pete Buttigieg, a prominent 2020 Democratic contender, hinted at a similar tack, stating on Twitter “Innocent civilians are now dead because they were caught in the middle of an unnecessary and unwanted military tit for tat.” But as Washington Examiner reporter Jerry Dunleavy noted, Buttigieg misstates the series of events in order to imply that both President Trump and the Iranian regime are equally culpable when they are most certainly not.
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See Also:
(1) WW3 didn’t happen but something else did
(2) Trump sent back-channel message to Iran urging not to escalate fighting: Report
(3) The Killing of Soleimani Was Not an ‘Assassination’
(4) Photos reportedly show part of missile that downed Ukrainian plane over Iran
