Killing Qassem Soleimani is a win. But war with Iran would be a disaster

The news broke late Thursday night that U.S. forces killed Iranian leader Qassem Soleimani in an airstrike. Good riddance.

The Washington Examiner’s Phil Klein rightly dubbed Soleimani “Iran’s terrorist in chief.” The Iranian general is responsible for the deaths of untold numbers of American. He has plotted and logistically supported attacks on U.S. troops and, most recently, the American Embassy in Iraq. We should all be happy to see him dead. And, if it is true that Soleimani was planning an “imminent threat” to American lives, as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo claims, then the decisive action carrying out his killing is fully justified.