Paul Renna

Great movie and acting from Christian Bale!!! a must see if you want to have a better understanding of why we are in our current political mess. My take away is that , power unchecked (as Trump would like it) led to a manufactured war with Iraq (using 911 as an excuse and manipulating public view accordingly), hundreds of thousands of deaths, a trillion in debt, nobody in jail, and a show of how our government can go terribly wrong. I am not too surprised with FOX and the right focusing on the ten second skit at the end which is a bit over the top and not needed and calling the movie despicable because of this, but failing to acknowledge the main point of the movie!!! Power Unchecked= disaster. Exactly the danger we face today with Trump and his cronies. We will live with the infamy of the Iraq war which is also directly connected to the current horrible situation in the Middle East including the spread of terrorism, millions migrating flooding into Europe triggering nationalism/populism, running from violence (exactly the instability in the Middle East that everyone talked about and Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld, etc conveniently ignored to help Halliburton and the Saddam Hussein/Bush vendetta) and all Trump can say is "ban the muslims"?? Other takeaway: I am convinced that we just do not learn our lessons from history!!!!