At some point the US is going to call endex to this farce under their publicised assumptions that they have won and withdraw all their built up expensive forces from the region, the problem there is they will leave a vulnerability to the US bases that Iran can at anytime attack.
Therefore has the US built a rod for their own backs in having to maintain a credible and expensive force in the region for years to come. I am sure there are a lot of Middle Eastern countries that were attacked looking at the disadvantages of having US bases on their territory.