I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely.
A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.
There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

