Iran is in the state it is, because of inept US interventions, starting with installing the Shah in order to prop up the continued theft of Iranian oil by western oil companies. So, this is the latest installment of ineptitude by the US state department, not substantively different than Viet Nam, Iraq, or Afghanistan.

Even were we to "win" this war by dismantling every semblance of a governing body, Iran would become a balkanized failed state with a plethora of radical jihadist groups further destabilizing neighboring states from Pakistan to Turkey.

US interventions on behalf of US corporate interests abroad have not usually, possibly never, turned out well. Witness El Salvador, Cuba, Nicaragua, Chile, Argentina. Having been of draft age during the Viet Nam War/Police Action, I thought the stupidity of that involvement would be forever self-evident. That "falling domino" of communism, is now home to manufacturing plants for US products and a vacation hot spot for Americans. How they have forgiven us for dropping more ordinance on them than was used in all of WWII I can't understand.

And yet, here we go again.