Fair, but in general the US have been waging random wars for a long time now and this argument is one I’ve seen used often (and to be clear I think most of the wars I’ve been alive to see were also bad). It’s just that now, specifically, it’s especially egregious. Even if we conceded that taking Iran’s nuclear ambitions down a peg was absolutely critical and that acting with force right now was the only way to achieve that (debatable), obviously the means of acting are ridiculously ineffectual, messy and incompetent.
Fair, but in general the US have been waging random wars for a long time now and this argument is one I’ve seen used often (and to be clear I think most of the wars I’ve been alive to see were also bad). It’s just that now, specifically, it’s especially egregious. Even if we conceded that taking Iran’s nuclear ambitions down a peg was absolutely critical and that acting with force right now was the only way to achieve that (debatable), obviously the means of acting are ridiculously ineffectual, messy and incompetent.