If you ever spend any time driving around France, you will note that virtually every little village has its own poignant World War I memorial. If you count the number of names on each memorial and compare it to the size of the village, you will have a better understanding of what a catastrophe the war was. And that doesn’t even include its side effects–Soviet communism, the rise of the Nazi and fascist states, and World War II.
Trump was scheduled to make an appearance at a cemetery full of American war dead at Belleau Wood yesterday. Instead, allegedly due to bad weather (the other world leaders somehow didn’t have this problem), he spent the day watching Fox News and tweeting. Why wouldn’t he? He has no sense of tragedy, or responsibility to anyone other than himself, and he approves of the kind of nationalism that directly led to the war.
It was a disgrace. Or, as he would say, BAD!