“How did we inherit this moral obligation to bring justice to the world via death from above?” Maher asked. “It doesn’t make any sense. Our schools are crumbling and we want to teach everyone else a lesson.”

Subtly mocking the entertainment industry’s typical peacenik stance, Maher said, “I am no fan of Assad, and I say that openly. I don’t care if it costs me jobs in Hollywood.” He also made fun of America’s tendency to “muse out loud” about who we’re going to bomb. “People in other countries don’t talk like this. Probably because if they did, we’d bomb them!”

He ended his closing rant by remembering the time, just after September 11th, 2001, when he sat down with Howard Stern, who suggested bombing any Muslim country at random. “And I remember thinking to myself, ‘Really? Bomb any Muslim country? That’s the policy? Just get a map of the Middle East and throw a dart at it?’”

“Well apparently George W. Bush was listening,” he concluded, “because that’s exactly what we did.”