You won't venture to offer an opinion but I will, without restraint. No restraint, but reason, I hope.

The war is such folly that it breaks my heart.

Obama's 'nuclear deal' included a payment of 1.7 billion dollars (see Stanford Law School blog:https://law.stanford.edu/2016/08/12/the-400-million-payment-to-iran-was-american-diplomacy-at-its-finest/). This money included the release of funds withheld for Iran, + interest (see the same blog). That deal included free access by the IAEA to all Iran's nuclear facilities, both known and unknown. If new activity was detected (easy enough to detect), the new sites could be inspected with 24 hours notice. There was no sunset provision in this agreement, no date on which Iran could resume development of a nuclear weapon. (See Obama White House blog: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/node/343726).

In a nutshell, Obama's deal neutralized indefinitely Iran's nuclear program and its ambitions. For 1.7 billion, much of which was money owed to Iran already.

What do we have now? We have a war that may be costing as much as 2 billion dollars a day (see Harvard Kennedy School blog: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/node/343726. Also see Brown University's daily cost tracker: https://iran-cost-ticker.com/ ). As you rightly state, we have a burden on taxpayers and consumers around the world that is growing daily and that is anticipated to continue growing.

It's not just gas. It's the cost of just about everything. What about that promised cut in the Fed rate? How does that look with inflation rising?

Then there is global instability. The breakdown of traditional alliances, already frayed by Trump before the war began.

How much harm can one man do? You wrote a previous blog about examples from world history where empires have fallen. Where are we now in that historical perspective?