I hadn't seen the movie in probably 50 years.....the 1946 multiple Academy Award winning The Best Years Of Our Lives. If you have never seen this film....it follows the lives of three returning servicemen in a small town in mid-America....immediately after World War II ended.
There was one scene near the end of the almost three hour film....where in a public venue....two of the men are ideologically accosted by a professional miscreant and malcontent.....who rails against America having fought the wrong enemy in the war....and then labels all of our servicemen who were wounded and died in the war.....as "suckers."It's only one issue that I have with Donald Trump....but it's a big one....as he doesn't seem to have any concept of the horror of war....or the value of human life....in spite of all his rhetoric about bringing our troops home. For if this were truly the case....how could he have uttered the absurd comment that invading Venezuela would be...."cool".....as one book reported......or from a different book....again on Venezuela....."That's the country we should be going to war with. They have all that oil....and they are right on our backdoor." How could he be so flippant with Europe's security....or so lightly make statements as...."If I wanted to win that war, Afghanistan would be wiped off the face of the earth....in one week.....I just don't want to kill ten million people".....or on John McCain....."He's not a war hero.....he's a war hero because he was captured.....I like people who weren't captured."
President Trump's actions on China have been reckless.....backing a rat up against the wall....and this for money....for there are no principles involved here on his part....maybe others....but not on his. He showed similar lack of respect for human life with the Kurds....and with his many dealings over the decades with post-collapse money from the former Soviet Union.....with no questions asked. This goes beyond politics....as it is deeply distressing....and I do not see how evangelicals can avoid this as they have all the other disturbing issues
