re: nerve cheek gall = the 717 billion dollar leech that sells fear and trades in boots-on-the-ground vs dead-locals erm 'collateral damage' could stand to ditch it's entrepreneurial approach to global corporate empire and perhaps consider scaling back, vs bankrupting it's host or openly admitting it's mercenary nature...
...to say nothing of wars on emotions that result in being stuck in afghanistan over a decade and a half later to the cumulative tune of roughly 5-7 trillion dollars in loans called appropriations that are still getting kicked down the road like a rusty can, but I digress...