Reminds me of Bush "joking" about WMD's (weapons of mass destruction) at a White House Correspondence Dinner as Cheney sat close-by laughing as his stomach shook like a bowl full of jelly... Meanwhile, young men and women were being killed or bodies and lives being wrecked by a lifetime of chronic illness form PTSD to physical disabilities.
War is serious business and we should expect at minimal those who are charged with taking America into these Middle Eastern "cultural" wars to seriously consider the cost to our nation.