the President, Peter Sellers:
“Mr. President, we are rapidly approaching a moment of truth both for ourselves as human beings and for the life of our nation. Now truth is not always a pleasant thing. But it is necessary now for us to make a choice, to choose between two admittedly regrettable but nevertheless distinguishable postwar environments, one where you’ve got twenty million people killed and the other where you’ve got one hundred and fifty million people killed.” To which the president replies, “You’re talking about mass murder, general, not war.”
Trump chose money over lives, but his strategy has failed so miserably that both have been jeopardized.