The killing of Iranian Quds Force leader Qassem Soleimani is a great moment for the United States that should be celebrated by all Americans. Yet instead of cheering that the terrorist commander had been wiped out in an airstrike, Democrats wasted no time in directing their ire at President Trump. Sen. Chris Murphy asked, “Did America just assassinate, without any congressional authorization, the second most powerful person in Iran, knowingly setting off a potential massive regional war?” Ben Rhodes, who was a key foreign policy aide to President Barack Obama, demanded, “Congress has to assert itself and determine exactly what our Iran policy is.” It was especially ironic coming from Rhodes, given that Obama never asked for congressional authorization to go to war with Libya or to kill Osama bin Laden. And Obama imposed the disastrous Iran deal despite opposition by majorities in both chambers of Congress.

The truth is that Trump deserves enormous credit for the bold move of eliminating somebody who has done more to destabilize the Middle East than perhaps any single figure. Mark Dubowitz, an Iran expert and CEO of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, declared the event to be even bigger than the killing of bin Laden. Soleimani has been described as the architect of Iran’s strategy to wreak havoc in the Middle East to gain control of the region, from Tehran to the Mediterranean Sea. As part of a strategy he conceived and implemented, Iran has supported terrorist actions against the U.S. and its allies in Iraq, bolstered the brutal regime of Bashar Assad in Syria, supported and advised the terrorist group Hezbollah in Lebanon, and flamed the civil war in Yemen by supporting the radical Houthi movement.