“Also, just plain leaving the problem to the local powers is perfectly acceptable.”
And the simple bastard claims to be a federalist.
If Iran did this let the Saudi’s deal with it and hit them back. They have bought tens of billions of dollars in modern aircraft and military equipment from us and have been trained by us as well.
If Iran hits a US base, ship or facility then we knock the hell out of them, not a pinprick, but you really hurt them. Until then lets let Saudi boys do what they need to be doing rather than sending American boys to do their fighting.