US retaliates with airstrikes in Syria after Iranian drone strike kills US contractor
Iran, not Iranian backed militants but Iran, controlled the drone and used it to kill Americans. We tit-for-tat retaliated with our drones. This is weak and unconvincing. We should respond in a fashion which makes Iran too afraid to ever challenge America again. Sink their flagship, MOAB their nuke reactor centrifuge site, level their central military command. One of those or all of those- conventional military plans are not effective against Iran. Remember when Trump droned Soleimani, and Iran retaliated with missile attacks against our bases in Iraq? Trump erred immensely by tweeting disinformation when he should have punished Iran's military by decreasing it to a fraction of it's previous size. Allowing a third rate power to attack us with only the mildest responses not only fails to discourage subsequent attacks, but invites more attacks by the original belligerent and other enemies who are watching.


Agreed, any situation requiring a military response should be swift and eztremely severe. The entire world should take notice of how we respond and expect that same response to any action they might consider taking against us. It absolutely should be disproportionate when we are REACTING to aggression against our country and people. That is the only way to keep every other foreign power in check and would change the shape of all foreign decisions. They would all tread far more carefully and we have far lass difficult situations as the rest of the world would always be walking on egg shells.