The Stone throwers….

Throwing assorted verbal bric-a-brac at Donald J. Trump because he is Donald Trump needs comment. For one thing it’s mindless and for another they are coming from people who should not be throwing stones because they live in glass houses. They include the pejorative comments of the current Prime Minister, the former Prime Minister Kim Campbell, the Duchess of Sussex and the primary subject of this discourse, Michael McCain.

Comments by Michael McCain, CEO of Maple Leaf Foods, underscore a misguided anger driven by his obvious hatred of the U-S president.

I don’t recall this kind of vitriol directed at McCain or his company, responsible as it was for deaths of 23 consumers of meat products sold by Maple Leaf Foods. Listeria was the killer. Death lurked in his company’s unclean meat cutting apparatus. It was the killing machine.

The blood from that scandal still stains his hands. If it doesn’t, it should along with memories of vulnerability.

So exactly what is his justification for accusing “U-S government officials and their ‘narcissistic’ leader of concocting an ill-conceived plan to divert attention from political problems at home” to the killing fields of the Middle East where the Iranians have been missile firing and killing at will?

He noted that while Iran is a dangerous State, a plan had been in place to contain it. If he’s referring to the goofy Obama gambit he is among the ill-informed. In his rant McCain denounced the “taking out” of a terrorist leader because, “there are a hundred like him standing in line.”

Does he mean we should let them flourish with impunity?

McCain blames American adventurism for the shooting down of PS flight 752 that claimed 176 lives, including a colleague’s family. That is tragic. But contrast McCain’s simplistic offering to the thousands of Iranians who marched, held vigils and blamed the evasive, lying leaders of Iran for the airline disaster.

It’s entirely possible PS 752 was deliberately shot down. It’s entirely possible that the world has given the Iranians a quick pass into “unintentionally.” You think a cabal responsible for killing scores of its own people during the November protests would hesitate shooting down a planeload of unarmed civilians as unsuspecting of danger as those who purchased Mr. McCain’s meat products some ten years ago?

I would have thought after living the listeria nightmare, Mr. McCain would have spent more time reflecting and less time throwing verbal brickbats that expose his woeful bias.

His outrage is misdirected. May his company never again have to face death in the grocery aisle.