This post was inspired based upon two posts, here and here, neither of which acknowledge that the Big Oil Barons whose money put Trump 47 into existence are continuing to make out like highway bandits the longer Trump drags out his unfortunately bad Iran incursion.
No boots on the ground, air power, and that went bad. Boots on the ground, and the US people would rebel even more. No exit plan, but why exit when your fossil fuel buddies are making out like bandits?
The long term answer, clear as a bell tone, renewable energy reliance, sooner than later. There will be petro or other fuel for war mongering machinery, our own or Israel's, once oil is retired to petrochem only use. Conserve it for that, as the plastic Boeing 787s need to keep flying, presumably, but that's another why-and-how-much question, as air tourism to the ludicrously luxurious Gulf Arab states during a war there is not evidence of the best decision making.
BOTTOM LINE: Trump will as likely as not end his lame duck stunt with the war still dragged out, since Bibi and crowd do not either want the killing and land grabbing to stop, and they don't have to posture differently, as Trump is doing.
A last caveat, the post is not aimed to rebut either of the opening linked items. Each of them speaks for itself, and readers can read one or both, or ignore the two, as they see fit. The focus is on what both leave unsaid, as if not there while apparent to anyone with a brain. US oil barons love their income statements' bottom lines.
Just, an isolationist campaign posturing by the Trump administration and a hot war is going on, so the posturing is/was/will be continued pure bullshit. And whoever bought that crap and voted in Trump 47, let them deliberate or post online about whatever. They're complicit. And Bibi and his mad genocidal Jewish Zionist Greater Israel land theft hangers on are crazy and anyone going into war with such "allies" is crazier; that being Trump. Or what? "Dumb" like a fox if jingoism is his survival plan while wheedling billionaires and chasing crypto profits, and helping his Oil buddies make record profits fitting that as well. Perhaps his choosing the war criminals in the thing shows a logical but evil basis, apart from anybody's rhetoric.