Costs are much more after 15 years. Pointless? Opinions have no cost. Not one peep 15 years ago and it accomplished nothing. Lybia was no eminent threat. It contributed to the Benghazi situation, which we never avenged due to incompetence. Again, not a peep. In fact, dems sided with incompetence. Call it a but but all you want. Pointing how people try to force their opinions of what is right or wrong upon others, while flip flopping their outrage at almost identical situations, proves to me they have no conviction……just their hatred for one man.
Hypothesis: Leave Iran alone, keep shipping them money on the promise that they stop enriching their uranium to weapons grade. It was already enriched past the commercial stage. (Fact). Their proxies, the 3 H’s….Hamas, Hezbollah, and Houthis, keep lobbing missiles at will without consequences. Finally, Iran develops the nuclear warhead and the means to deliver it. Are they going to put it in a silo for defense? No, they will erase the dreaded Jews from the face of the planet. No doubt in my mind. What then? WWlll. The Jews would nuke Iran, which would then get Russia and China involved, which would eventually hit us. Then would we scream, “Why didn’t Trump prevent this when he could have?”. That’s if we are still here to complain.