Why would anyone care a bean about how people say they feel? It would make more sense to keep photographing to see how often they laugh or smile. And that's still not much sense.
Bonkers. The invasion of Iraq was bonkers and was obviously so. Conservatives should surely understand about the importance of habit and culture; societies are like organic entities - isn't that the old simile? It's pure Holywood to imagine you could convert Iraq into a European (or Japanese, or Hindu....) society in a few years, by force of arms, nearly painlessly. And if you couldn't, then you'd need to deploy repression on a scale far beyond the power of a paltry little army. Rash. Foolish. Bonkers.