Because he was planning other attacks. If the regime knows we will retaliate they will reduce terror actions. Clinton could have killed bin laddin but chose your strategy of “why” and you saw firsthand why.It’s different not better but the leaders of Iran must fear ending up like him or Gaddafi. They know the US can eliminate leaders.What happened in Iraq?Never?
Never.
20 years spinning our wheels and wasting trillions of dollars. Iraq is not a better place today than it was under Saddam.
But it benefits us none so what is the point? Why? It's going to come back on us sooner or later.