We tried supporting Iraq in the old Iraq-Iran war.
Then when Iraq started winning we said “oops”.
U.S. Middle East policy has been a sick joke for a long time.
the US string of bases across Western Syria were the next "logical necessity," after Bush and the neocons handed Iraq over to Iran, Obama failed to overthrow Assad with his color revolution (and massive migrant flow to Europe) and Biden pulled out from Afghanistan
Neocon thinking is that Iran must not have control and unfettered access to its allies and proxies from Western Afghanistan, to the Indian Ocean, across to the Mediterranean.
They just go from one self-made disaster to another