Evidence That Plane Was Shot Down in Iran May Upset U.S.-Canada Relations

I wish we could my friend, but while I understand your reasoning, you misinterpret mine.

I am not saying that it is the US' fault. What I am saying is how it appears in a political sense.

If what you are saying is right, we would have harsher laws against the sugar industry, because there are many studies and research done to show how they are using the same tactics as tobacco and in fact are helped by the same companies that helped the tobacco industry. Yet we are not hard on the companies that have been found to be lying to the public. That is a big difference between individual thinking and mass thinking.

In easier words, to quote men in black, "an individual person is smart, but people are stupid..."

Unless you are telling me that false facts do not get picked up by using only partial data or partial information, you must concede to the very idea that when it comes to politics in regards to issues arising from tension, it isnt about who is right or wrong, it is about who is

  1. Easiest to blame
  2. What can be used against us in a small way that can grow

If you'd like an example, you can look up a ship in WW1 (lusitiana) that was sunk by a German uboat. It was a british ship and the germans were at war with Britain, but it just so happened to be carrying american passengers, on all accounts Germans would be innocent of trespasses because it is an honest mistake, how were they to know that americans would be on this ship? But it was one of the leading causes of the Americans joining WW1 against Germany.

I would love for people to be so rational that we could explain these things and not have them misinterpreted or twisted to someones war cry, but that's why politics and beurocratic thinking is the way it is. They have to think about the big picture and how it could blow up in their faces even when they appear completely innocent. It's the issue of lack of information and others dumbing down information and using it as a weapon.

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