We shouldn’t even have a base at Al Tanf. We need to pull all our assets out of the region and let it be someone else’s problem.
The US is no longer dependent on Middle Eastern oil - the strategic situation has thus changed dramatically. While we once needed to care, we no longer do.
In fact, a crisis that shuts down ME oil production in whole or part would be a massive boon to the USA, given that we are now the world’s largest exporter.
We may be the largest exporter, but we are not the largest refiner. Most gasoline and other petroleum products are imported largely for the ME. Our refinery capacity is limited and the refinery business is not really profitable in the US.
Someone else’s problem? So just let Israel stand alone against Iran, and its proxies: Syria, Lebanon, Hamas, and Hezbollah? Allow Iran to take over the Western Mediterranean?
So when Iran moves its Revolutionary Guards and A-Qods troops out of Venezuela and up to our southern border with Mexico, it will still be someone else’s problem or will you draw a red line there?