What’s so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It’s like a shock and aw shucks campaign.

Miller’s line satirizes what he portrays as a pattern in U.S. wartime rhetoric: intense, uncompromising prosecution of a conflict until core strategic aims are secured (“our business is taken care of”), followed by a sudden pivot to humanitarian concern and nation‑building (“taking care of people”). The “turn on a dime” phrasing underscores the abruptness and performative quality of the shift, while “shock and aw shucks” blends the language of overwhelming force (“shock and awe”) with a folksy, self-exculpating posture (“aw shucks”). The joke implies moral inconsistency—suggesting compassion is deployed as a public-relations afterthought rather than a guiding principle.