I've been a longtime opponent and critic of much of U.S. foreign policy, including toward Iran and on the whole MENA region, and have had a lot of choice words for the U.S. government's past policies and actions - So many things that could be said about them. Yet never in my lifetime did I expect it to be saying that it looks absolutely ridiculously.

Imagine little over a month into the illegal undeclared war you started with assassination attacks, flash forward a few days and weeks the world's most advanced air defense systems are being blown to confetti, the most advanced radars and AWACS planes destroyed on the ground, your foremost stealth jet fielded blasted in the sky, can't protect or prevent any of your regional allies from having hellfire rained down on them and having their industry leveled and economic means of life wrecked, all your bases in the theatre rendered uninhabitable and troops evacuated and sent to hide and hunker down in civilian hotels, the route through which a fifth of global oil exports transit cutoff, the vaunted world's strongest navy of a maritime power loitering a distance away unable to be ordered in to try and reverse the situation for fear of just being blown up too, and now being the one begging the attacked party - a decades long-sanctioned developing country, for a ceasefire.

Did I miss anything? It's just unreal.