Why is it assumed he is talking about the soldiers who fight the wars? I thought he was talking about bad civilian-political leaders who don’t care about the soldiers and hunger for war and don’t want to discuss peace.
In my opinion, the assumption that he denigrated “soldiers” is a cheap shot. I think he is owed an apology. Why would he pay his respects at a cemetery if he was calling soldiers “warmongers”?
I don’t like the confusion Francis is causing in the Church with his fuzzy treatment of Communion for the divorced and remarried without an annulment. I don’t care for his appointments of liberals as Bishops and Cardinals. There are any number of things he has said and done that I don’t care for and I much prefer SJPII and PB16 (PEB). But this is a cheap shot, an extremely uncharitable interpretation of something he said in an attempt to stir up animosity against him. The fervor to get him, to criticize everything he says and does results in incorrect, poor, fevered thinking against him at times, in my opinion.
Because he did so while at the Nettuno US War Cemetery.
The jerk has to turn every important Catholic occasion into a political statement.