No problem at all, it's great to have an intelligent conversation.
Sachs is right, though don't feel sorry for America, they're not a neutral, innocent party that was tricked into acting. If anything always "leaving it to Bibi" in the region allows America to keep it's hands clean (and also easily blame/drop Israel when its no longer in their strategic interest) and perhaps they pivot to China.
Netanyahu famously (when no longer in office in Israel) addressed American congress in 2002 arguing for America to start a war against Iraq :
"If you take out Saddam, I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region. ... the first victory in Afghanistan makes the second victory in Iraq that much easier... and therefore I think that the choice of Iraq is a good choice."
Where did that come from? "The Clean Break Memo"
In 1997 (1 year after Netanyahu was first elected) Douglas Feith and Richard Perle advised Netanyahu to make "a clean break" from the Oslo accords with the Palestinians. They also argued that Israeli security would be served best by regime change in surrounding countries.
https://medium.com/dan-sanchez/clean-break-to-dirty-wars-d5ebc5fda9f9
"Pursuit of comprehensive peace with all of Israel’s neighbors was to be abandoned for selective peace with some neighbors (namely Jordan and Turkey) and implacable antagonism toward others (namely Iraq, Syria, and Iran). The weight of its strategic allies would tip the balance of power in favor of Israel, which could then use that leverage to topple the regimes of its strategic adversaries by using covertly managed “proxy forces” and “the principle of preemption.” Through such a “redrawing of the map of the Middle East,” Israel would “shape the regional environment,” and thus, “Israel will not only contain its foes; it will transcend them.”"
Reading that with Wesley Clarkes memo it's easy to see how we ended up here. Syria was the last part of the jigsaw and Assad fell in December 2024.