Sometimes the news tells you something not by the headlines, but by what isn’t being said.
As the day was winding down yesterday, we were starting to hear about the cornerstones of a new deal to end the war between the U.S. and Iran.
It seems likely that the agreement would reopen the Strait of Hormuz and probably remove the American blockade of Iranian ports, but beyond that nothing is certain.
It would also definitely include doing SOMETHING with Iran’s enriched Uranium, but no one knows if that means removing it or not and even then, what about the technology that made it (and a nuclear weapon someday) possible.
In Canada, very few people seem to be talking about it this morning, and perhaps that is because of the things it WON”T do.
It won’t reduce gas prices right away, or erase the pain at the pumps we have felt for the past three months.
It won’t decrease the tense feeling we have all had that world war 3 was closer than ever before.
It also wont bring back anyone who died, including the 156 people who were killed by a U.S. tomahawk missile at an elementary school in Minab in southern Iran on the first day of the war.
As in many wars, the end is something that is appreciated more than celebrated, because there is very little there worth celebrating at all.
I’m Paul Martin and that’s what I see looking Beyond the Headlines.
