Contrary to what crazy people of today think, the US presidents of 1990s and Clinton in particular, and Democratic presidents are usually more strategic about wars and not cowardly like narcassistic child Trump. Trump doesn't have courage nor people's skills to organize a successful campaign. Clinton was a lot more tough and NATO saw opportunity and was onboard and this was in their backyard.
Trump administration has no actual plan for this conflict and Israel is driving it by trying to merge militaries and have US act as their piggy bank, defensive ring and offensive tool and Israel never manages actual strategic wars well. It can kill Palestinians and Lebanese non state actors near border but any war with a nation it needs US intervention or full NATO intervention. As US got dumber they allowed Israel to influence their foreign policy more and now gotten themselves into bad conflicts.
Democrats will have to correct it as always