Then let’s get out as best we can. Let them beat the hell out of each other. We just need to do what we have to do to deal only those threats to our own security.
That’s pretty much the way it was when Saddam still ran Iraq. Iraq and Iran kept each other in check. It was a colossal blunder by Bush to overtake Iraq and try to impose a western style democracy in the country. It upset the balance in the region, cost the US trillions of dollars, thousands of American lives and leaving the region in a much worse state than it was before we stepped in.