Bidens response is along the lines of the US not mining Haiphong Harbor during the Vietnam War for fear they might have upset the dam bolsheviks & CCP. Primary players supplying the munitions, even military personnel & training to tertiary players killing Americans (no I'm not going to debate whether we should have been there or not).
That this spineless, dickless, hopeless, weakass administration warned the peaceful critters we would strike day before pulling the trigger thereby allowing high value targets & trained killers time to go to ground. Not the actions of a "man" trying to stop hundreds of attacks, but the actions of a vegetable trying to do anything but the right thing.
What is the right thing you ask? Iran survives on oil exports, period end of statement. Take out offshore derricks, refining facilities & high value targets in the government, O&G Industry & the military. The vast majority of people in Iran hate these people anyway so why not at least in appearance lay more ground work to foment the seeds of another revolt.
As I've always said if you are going to commit to a military campaign that uses america's military & money, go whole hog or don't go at all. If you have soldiers in positions of danger you dam well better have a plan when they are maimed or killed. An immediate response for slights & attacks. Boden's list of failures continue to get longer & longer