i'm strongly opposed to endless, go nowhere tit-for-tat with iran, which is what has been going on and what the americans seem to want to do, in the endless delusion that the iranians are going to negotiate. i explicitly stated i'm opposed to that outcome and supported a single, immense, overpowering regime change offensive precisely to prevent it. 

the americans could have done this very quickly, and they might have received some criticism for it from stupid people, but it would have been a smart thing to do and greatly benefited the region and the world. instead, they've done this the dumbest way possible by dragging it out as much as they can because they didn't want to do it at all, and now have an unavoidable, grueling, expensive, twenty year proxy war with the chinese in front of them that will distract them from other parts of the world and further ramp up their external debts.

this is the consequence of bad leadership.