Iran shoots down an airliner

We should send Iran a sympathy card

"We've been there. Sometimes , in the heat of the moment , people make mistakes. What you need to do is own your mistake. Don't generate excuses or alibis. Apologize. Show remorse and regret. Reach out on a personal level to the survivors. Show the same level of support you would show to your own people. You can eventually climb out of this pit. However , we don't know how long that will be. We're still climbing out or the same pit"

It took you about ten seconds to read this card. That is the time that the Iranian officer had to decide, "jet airliner or cruise missile". This reminds me of an incident recorded in Rear Admiral Danial V Gallery's book, "Clear the Flight Deck". An allied radar station operator sent out an alert based on radar blips from a formation of enemy bombers flying at ten thousand feet. The radar blips actually turned out to be a formation of enemy geese flying at one thousand feet.