It's really important for people to internalize that, in the eyes of Washington DC's foreign policy establishment, the biggest sin of the Obama presidency was concluding a deal with Iran that objectively satisfied the demands that Washington DC pretends to believe in.

Obama secured a deal over the objections of the entire Republican Party and a significant part of his own Democratic Party, including the objections of the man who is currently Senate Minority Leader, and then it was immediately torn up. But again: the deal did exactly what they claim they want.

I say *pretend* and *claim* because the last 10yrs since then should clarify that this was never what any of them wanted. They want the IRI gone. Obama undermined this by understanding that it wasn't really in the interests of the US to repeat Iraq. A lot of these people want to try Iraq again.

If you don't see that I don't really know what to say tbh.