No. What happened is:
The Iranians killed an American contractor (what was he, an electrician? a cook?) and in response, we killed the freaking second most important person in the entire Islamic Republic of Iran, a personal friend of the Supreme Leader, and actually being groomed to replace the Supreme Leader at some point (that's kind of the equivalent of a vice-president in a democracy or a prince in a monarchy).
Then, pressured by their internal politics and outraged citizenry, they lob some 15 missiles, 5 of which fail, at an IRAQI installation, and the other 10 land in some sand and don't manage to kill ANYBODY in that general area... not even injure anybody... and AFTER it's verified that their "attack" was a dud, they go ahead and call it PROPORTIONATE and CONCLUDED (in their words) and add that they don't want escalation or war...
Where are you from? Canada? How would you feel if, say, Julie Payette, your Governor General, got killed? Or, Chief Justice Richard Wagner who is the next in order of precedence after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau?
How would your country respond to a foreign power assassinating your second in command? By exploding some ordnance on top of some empty buildings owned by a different neighboring country, or some sand in a neighboring country? Would you feel, as a citizen of your country, that the "retaliation" was sufficient? Imagine that for some reason there is an escalation of hostilities between Mexico and Canada. Mexico then kills Julie Payette or Richard Wagner... you then, in "response", and despite Mexico having several thousand soldiers and diplomats a few miles from your border at easy reach for your weapons, you just send some bombs to an American installation where some Mexicans were guests, not managing to kill or maim a single Mexican, and not a single host either. Great! And then, after being informed of the meager results of your "attack" you send a message to Mexico, saying, "that's it, we concluded our retaliation, we don't want any escalation or war, so if you guys don't do anything else, we're cool."
If that's your standard for how humiliated the United States got today, sorry, but I stand by what I said to the other poster: it's wishful thinking.
