What the president did was bold, courageous, and it worked!
Let's take a good look at how it worked.
He did take out a Leader that helped to support many of the satellite terrorist organizations. That might be a good thing. That's on on the good side.
But 10 minutes later, that General was replaced by a hand picked General. He was an Iranian General, not a run in the mill Terrorist. Yes, he was a really bad Actor. How many cabinet members and advisors under Rump are also really bad actors but do you think they should be assassinated? No change at all. In fact, that was actually a win for Iran. More about that later.
It gave the Hardliners in Iran the legitimacy they were quickly losing. While Rump was beating on his Chest and trying to force Nationalism in the US, guess what, the Iranian Hardliners successfully got the Nationalism they were looking for. The Moderates and Liberal factions don't even dare speak up right now. Iran is not America. Speaking out right now in Iran would mean a fast death sentence and the majority of the Iranians would support that action. Huge Win in the Iranian column.
It was damned smart of the Iranians to launch those missiles and not kill a single person. There were enough launched that it had to be done on purpose to not kill anyone. The Iranians launched their junk that were well on their way to the scrap heap. I guess they figured out that they would let the Americans recycle and clean them up instead. What it showed the Iranians and other Countries is that Iran is not afraid to directly strike back at the American Military in response. HUGE win for Iran.
Rump decides to scale it back to avoid any more conflict. This sounds real good. But remember, he's the one that fired the first shot that brought all this on in the first place. While he did get rid of a really bad actor, he didn't change a thing since the replacement is business as usual. And I doubt Rump is going to repeat the same action again anytime soon. In order turn this into a Rump win, he is going to have to take the replacement out very quickly. And then it escalates from there. Since neither country can invade the other, it becomes a tit for tat. And Iran has at it's disposal a huge army of Terrorist Organizations throughout the world. But the US has at it's own disposal a HUGE armada of it's own Military. This one doesn't go into to the win category for either party.