...Vietnam? Where the war was so profitable for the "military-industrial complex" (and its political backers) that there was no real reason to stop it?

But this is different, isn't it? No profit motive here, nosiree! Just keeping the world safe from...uhhh...er, what was that again? Oh, yeah...Terrorists\ufffd. (Egad, that needs rehearsal! A fluff-up like that could be dangerous to me and all that know me! Don't let it happen again!!!)