So are 80 schoolchidren at a primary school

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/28/children-dead-...

The murderers are the people committing murders. That the victim was himself a ruthless tyrant doesn't change the fact that this is intolerable. The US can't be the only one allowed to bend the rules.

Don't come crying around when the next 9/11 inevitably happens.

Obama literally signed a deal with Iran to constrain their nuclear program, and Trump ripped it up in his first term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Comprehensive_Plan_of_Ac...

Was the bottleneck in these situations really the US' willingness to kill or capture world leaders?

In hindsight, from the perspective of the Middle East and Arab world in general: Obama’s tenure was a geopolitical nightmare, while under Trump’s first presidency the Middle East made a big step forward with the Abraham Accords.