I know you just copied the headline of the article, but that headline is doing some serious heavy lifting in terms of saying the US has no control over its actions.

“Oh no, we bumbled our way into a war again! Couldn’t be helped, not our faults. Whatever are we to do?”

thrust US into escalating Middle East conflict

Will someone please tell CNN that USA has been violently attacking the middle east for like a century?

JFC it’s like they just woke up yesterday.