Here is an idea: the only way to win is a large and extremely costly invasion, actual troops on the ground for probably a decade.

Nobody wants to pay that price. It was insane to start this war, and everybody knew it but Netanyahu and Trump. I can't believe Rubio was stupid enough to go along with it.

American exceptionalism is a poison to the mind. Elect people who are "true believers", and this is the expected outcome.

What every admin in this century has done is to avoid declaring what construes "winning" -- which is rather convenient to them as far as how they are to be judged on waging that war.