“I was leery about how the Iranians would benefit from it.”
I always thought we should have done regime change for Iran instead.
I always thought we should have done regime change for Iran instead.
That was always the plan. Rightly or wrongly, the U.S. government chickened out. The were in Afghanistan on one side, and Iraq on the other...and then they didn’t do it, and then didn’t do what was required to close the Iran/Iraq border.