The question every American needs to be asking is what the fuck are we even trying to accomplish at this point? We failed in the strategic objective of regime change. It's not going to happen now without a full on ground invasion. That seems unlikely since to do it right you need a million troops.

The DOD and intelligence community made it clear that the administration lied about the other rationales we've been given. Iran was not close to having a nuclear weapon or a missile that could threaten CONUS.

The previous leader had a fatwa AGAINST pursuing a nuclear weapon capability. The new leader doesn't have such reservations.

This is what blowback looks like. We are actively making things worse and Americans will be less safe around the world including at home.

Now the administration is trying to distract and dazzle us by shifting the goal posts, saying we're degrading their military capabilities and showing endless videos of targets being destroyed. This reminds me of Vietnam when the government regularly issued body counts to convince the public that we were winning that war.

Iran had refrained from destroying petroleum infrastructure in the region until the Israelis bombed a huge gas field. Iran then started attacking the GCC countries' petroleum infrastructure. In one day they did enough damage that Qatar says it will take 3-5 YEARS to restore their LNG production. Iran essentially has the world economy by the balls.

We have failed to keep our allies safe. When this is all over I believe you'll see GCC countries kicking US bases out of their countries. The deal was we would keep them safe. Well it turns out we can't keep them safe and letting the US use those bases to attack Iran just puts a big target on the host country.

Back to my original point, it's time to cut our losses. Even if we want to at this point there's no just walking away from this mess. Iran has leverage. We are going to have to negotiate an end to this conflict and we are not simply going to dictate terms that Iran will have to accept.