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Forever war with who? Israel would thank us for eliminating Netanyahu. Sure as fuck would improve our relations with every other nation in the region.
Um, Iran? Pretty much the alpha and omega of any questions of western foreign policy in the region.
And the cascade of failed states that would result from the most massive humanitarian and refugee crisis in history--tens of millions dead, tens of millions of refugees--when Iran decides to go ahead with what it believes is its mission from God and the objective of its current foreign policy: to kill every Jew in the middleeast.
That would not be a forever war, just be the end of modern society the world over; Russia and North Korea will joint Iran's side because Russia thinks it will be the leader of a new post-American world order.
But Russia and Iran are led by absolute delusional morons. Russia thinks it can get off a few nuclear strikes without provoking a massive US counterstrike aka major attack option one. Who knows, maybe Russia can; MAD deters total nuclear war, not small scale nuclear war.
Iran fucking hates Israel, they've already announced their ongoing attacks will end immediately upon an end to the conflict in Gaza. They would celebrate a change in US Policy.
Also, Israel is more likely to become a failed state if we leave Netanyahu in power. Protests and violence have filled the streets for months if not years. The resulting conflicts because of Bibi's and his conservative Caucus' Genocide is the cascading crisis that you're afraid of. Doing nothing is the damnation you seek to avoid.
Fuck Russia, they've had dictators hovering over the button for a century. I'm not afraid of them, or I would have lived my entire life and all of it's remainder in fear. If they want to fight then I'll fight. If they're threatening to play thermonuclear war, nothing is new and I don't care.