Iran's proxies have been attacking our bases and ships daily seeking this outcome, and only through a combination of luck and skill have we not had deaths to date (plenty of injuries, which it seems the administration has been ok with). Anyone surprised by this is either a liar or not paying attention. We have normalized this by not responding more forcefully sooner, and just occasionally with some pinprick strikes on the proxies (while Iran laughed at Biden). Someone on this site mentioned the 11 ballistic missiles Iran launched at our base after Trump assassinated the Iranian terrorist, however Iran's proxies have been launching ballistic missiles regularly. Make no mistake that all of this is done with Iran's political, military, and financial support and approval.
Biden has come out with a tweet that he will hold everyone involved responsible. For this statement to be true, that would mean holding the terrorist Ayatollah responsible, which Trump threatened. I do not know if that is the appropriate response, but certainly the response needs to be more than lobbing a missile at an aid worker and his family like he did in the "righteous" attack in Afghanistan, or the "strong message" that Kirby keeps saying our responses have sent to Iran. It's time for the gender studies majors in the administration and idealogues like Kerry to stop running our foreign policy, as the policy of appeasement, being nice to Iran, and hoping for this moderate revolution we keep hearing so much about in Iran to happen has not worked.
We don't need to listen to the chickenhawks like Graham or Cotton who seem to be advocating for a full scale war, but the policies that have gotten us here clearly haven't worked, and giving Iran more money and appeasement only emboldened them to sign off and likely help plan the October 7th slaughter that lit the region on fire. We now have a war in Ukraine, Gaza, something potentially even more destructive in Iran, North Korea sabre rattling again, the administration now finally considering reestablishing Trump's ban on aid to the terrorist sympathizers in the UN(RWA), and China making more bold threats and moves. This foreign policy has been nothing short of a trainwreck, and now we have at least more dead US troops and dozens more injured, with what has turned into a tanker war in the middle east that the administration doesn't want to admit to.