Thank you Shahryar. I will post the latest table.

Trump finally was forced to do the right thing. IMO this is the best way forward and although I do not see much hope (because of Israel), I do wish that the 60 day negotiations also produce positive results that includes Iranian control of the Straight and Iran remaining in NPT.

I am not trying to defend Trump but a few things were unreasonable expectations from him:

1. Democrats, Republican, and Israeli expectations: The expectation here was that Trump execute the policies that previous presidents (includes many democrats as well as republicans) have set. Trump ran on an America-only platform. This included pulling out of WHO, NATO, and many other international organizations. How did they expect him to go and defend all these bases in other countries that previous administrations created for the time when defending other countries becomes a necessity? It has always been obvious that Trump's heart is not in this and will do what is barely minimum necessary but against a tough adversary, defending these bases will become the first sacrificial lamb.

2. Arab expectations: They expected that by housing US military bases, it will come to their defense. All previous presidents democrats and republicans all encouraged this belief in the GCC states. This is the least of Trump's priorities and as we saw, he did not at all try to defend the GCC countries. True that Iran's nasty indefensible missiles had a lot to do with it. But expecting that Trump will spend a lot of energy, money, and political capital to defend them, IMO, was unrealistic. As soon as he got elected, if I were the GCC, I would have done my best not to create a conflict because I would have guessed that Trump would abandon me first. It was incredibly foolish for them to think otherwise. Now, they will have to pay through their teeth. And, their economies will not recover for many year. The negative sentiment has also risen incredibly. Before this war, there was talk of naming the Persian Gulf something else. Today, instead, I heard on news a republican congressman say that GCC countries are not really countries. He said they are artificial creations and referred to them as US' gas stations. Look how low they have sunk. All very poor policies on their end, IMO.