This Is Not Strike One

Go ahead and try to convince me that you knew who General Qassem Soleimani was before he was killed last week by a U.S. strike. Sorry. I'm not buying it. The hyperbole regrading Iran's Quds Force has been ramped up in the wake of the wake of Soleimani. We are being asked to believe that killing a "military strongman" saved lives. As a matter of fact, the  U.S. "president" took a few moments out of his golf vacation to remind us that  “a lot of lives would have been saved” if he'd been hunted down years ago. Killing this guy, or rather "hunting him down" would have saved lives. Not his, of course.
We're also being asked to keep in  mind how military strikes are ways to keep the peace. This is all a part of the Middle East strategy that has never and continues not to make any kind of sense. Not that this is an exclusive feature of the current administration. No one, not ever, has been able to properly corral all of the hate and tragedy that flows like the oil upon which it sits. United States Marines have been singing about "the shores of Tripoli" for hundreds of years.  
Now they're headed back there. After sending in an airstrike in Iran to deal with a protest at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, the only logical response is to send three thousand troops back into the Middle East. The place out of which the "president" insists we are trying to get ourselves. That was when we were removing troops that stood between Kurds and Turkish troops that were pushing into that mess we call Syria. 
It does help to have a map, but knowing the players can be beneficial too. According to White House, the recently deceased General “made the death of innocent people his sick passion.” Seven people died in the drone strike. We should all assume that the other six were just as horrible and twisted as the General. Or that somehow their lives were the casual result of missiles fired from drones. Justice in the Middle East is a messy business. 
And  this will most certainly bring about the peace and calm that that region, and  the rest of the planet so desperately needs. 
No? Not convinced? 
Neither am I.