Maher to America: Iraq’s Not Some ‘Bad Boy’ You Can Just Magically Change

Bill Maher ended his show Friday night by getting to the real heart of America’s issues with the Middle East: the U.S. is the naïve woman in a rom-com who believes that with just the right amount of tender loving she can win over all the “bad boys” and they won’t drink or smoke or fall to dangerous militant groups ever again.

Maher suggested that it’s time the U.S. gets an intervention of its own because, he said, some nations will just never change and it shouldn’t be up to America to fix that. He likened Iraq to that one place on the street corner that’s always under new management: “It’s not failing ’cause it hates freedom, it’s just a shitty location!”

Maher took the analogy to its logical extreme and actually played clips of Dr. Phil diagnosing toxic relationships to make the point that America can’t keep thinking it’s going to get Iraq to change like Jack Nicholson in that one movie.

Watch the video below, via HBO:

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