For a manufactured war, that never had to happen in the first place, for a miserable patch of land that nobody much wanted anyway. Have you noticed that, ever since WW2, all of our wars have been fought in, around and over miserable shitholes that nobody real cares about, where you could dump tons of high-explosives and kill a not-insignificant percentage of the population, and nobody else really seems to give a shit, except in the abstract? Nobody seems to be in a big itching hurry to liberate, oh say, Paris (again) these days, huh?