Ummm, the point was that the guy is crying that we're spending money on the terrorism deal, and that is the same principle as crying about spending money to save your own life. Unless you really believe that we wouldn't have had any more attacks on our home ground even if the Administration didn't spend any money or effort? In that case, you can stop cancer research too because it's just as likely to go away by itself.
No attemp to make light of cancer - lost a wonderful father and a mother-in-law to the disease, along with some dear friends.
But Iraqi regime was dominated by the secularists who did not like Islamists. Now Islamists can come to the Iraq easier. (BTW, as a side effect Russians have less of them in Chechnya.)
If you want to do cancer research you need to have some idea what might be causing it. Otherwise your money will be wasted.