Early in The Sound of Music, the nuns sing “How Do You Solve a Problem like Maria?”, and, later, (spoiler alert) in a scene that becomes more horrifying the older I that I get, the same tune is the theme at her elaborate wedding to the Captain, who is in a formal Austrian Naval uniform.
Really . . .
This is the solution? Going from the cloister into a marriage to a military man where she will become the stepmother of seven children? Still, the real-life Maria von Trapp made a similar choice for what she thought were good reasons at the time. I imagine that it must have been a very hard decision for her. The real-life Captain von Trapp was not as young and handsome as his avatar in the movie, and the real-life marriage was not so much a love match as it was in the movie.
Why and how is he a problem?
- He is a tool of Russian president Vladimir Putin and puts their international interests ahead of ours.
- He is a tool of the Saudi royal family and puts their international interests ahead of ours.
- His tariff policies are going to fail as tariff policies always do, increasing the cost of living for all of us, including his supporters, and killing jobs.
- He may involve us in a war that we should avoid.
