What needs to be said. The US Patriot anti-missile system did not stop one Iranian missile. Iraq might soon have the Russian S-400 system. Iraq can share this technology with Iran so they can upgrade their system to S-400 standards.
Iraq and Iran can extend air protection to parts of Syria so Syria can recover their sovereignty.
The Dollar will soon die and America will not be able to have a military at 800 bases in 80 foreign countries. I am thinking that the Dollar will not die until 2021 when the stock market crashes. Foreigners will sell their US stocks and get out of the market. 60% of US money is overseas. When, not if, foreigners dump the dollar, all that overseas money will be repatriated which will increase the domestic money supply by 150%.
The leading Finance Ministers will gather together at meetings to make formal agreements cutting the value of the dollar. This happened during the Reagan years in the Plaza Accords and the Louvre Accords. Jim Rickards is predicting such accords for the dollar which will result in the dollar no longer being accepted as an international reserve currency.
If Iran wants to retaliate, the best revenge would be to kick the US out of Qatar, UAE, Oman, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia as well as Syria and Afghanistan. America has no business in the Mideast.