Just a totally delusional post that ignores the key fact that Obama signed a nuclear deal with Iran that Iran was complying with, per the IAEA, that was robust, per Trump’s Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, but that Trump, not Tehran, tore up. Leading to today’s war.
Don’t let these people gaslight you.
The war mongers are in Tehran, not Washington.
Between 2009 and 2025, the United States spent twelve years under Obama and Biden trying to reach a modus vivendi with the Islamic Republic. Sanctions relief, diplomacy, outreach, engagement. Yet a stable accommodation remained elusive.
Why? Veterans of the Obama team and their ideological supporters blame America’s supposed “war mongers.” The claim is absurd. The central argument of the hawks has never been that conflict is desirable. It is that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is a revolutionary jihadi organization that can only be deterred, not seduced.
Most Americans would prefer engagement to work. They are not eager for confrontation. They will give diplomacy every chance to succeed. But they are not willing to ignore reality indefinitely.
The problem was never those of us warning about the impossibility of a lasting accommodation with Tehran. The problem was Tehran itself.
When engagement fails year after year, American leaders return to deterrence not because American hawks are politically powerful, but because their diagnosis is far more accurate.
We hawks did not scuttle engagement. Tehran did.