You have to take off your rose colored glasses

The Title of (you know who) is "The President". Today, he is the owner of the world as we know it. And that should not be. The position of the President of the United (fifty) States was supposed to be nothing more than what the word is actually defined as:

The group member chosen to preside over a meeting or assembly.

Such a member would be the one who would insure the correct method of decision making were followed by the assembly of members. I would suggest you read Robert's Rules of Order which is the standard for facilitating discussions and group decision-making.

Instead, today, the United States President has his finger on that little red button of total annihilation of life on Earth which he may press at any time, for any reason, without permission from anyone else on said Earth. Should he not decide to terminate life on Earth, he may decide to simply destroy people and/or things that do not belong to the people of the United States. When the people of the United States try to interfere with what the Earth King wants to do, you get some pretty harrowing adventures for anyone who tries. (See: Daniel J. Jones, Edward Snowden, Wikileaks, etc.)

The the head of Iran's elite Quds Force and mastermind of its regional security strategy, was killed along with other senior Iraqi militants in a Friday morning airstrike ordered by United States President Donald Trump.

So, some Iraqi soldiers were militants while...

Sajjan said in a statement. "We are taking all necessary precautions for the safety and security of our civilian and military personnel."

... while soldiers on "our side" are called military personnel. A bomb purposely exploded on people to kill them is called an airstrike. (Would driving over an IED (Improvised Explosive Device, not a bomb) and exploding it be called a groundstrike?)

What's the difference between "militants" and "military personnel"? (What's the difference between "good guys" and "bad guys"?) (God, where is George Carlin when you need him?)

Rose colored glasses, wearing, you are. (I've made this illustration many times before, to many different people.) Offer a little girl a single dollar coin (here in Canada, we have those) or a handful of coins that add up to one dollar (we Canuks have stopped using pennies now. So that would be what... 20 nickels?), which do you think the little girl will choose? The nickels, of course. To Her, that would be more money than the one dollar coin. A new car costing "twenty grand" is cheaper than a new car costing "$20,000.00". Or, for that matter, the price of $19,995 is a thousand dollars less than $20,000.

So, too, we have military personnel versus militants. It's best to use Military Personnel to kill Militants of any kind. And, conversely, it's terrible when Militants kill Military Personnel. (Who was it that said, "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter"? Wasn't it George Carlin who asked, "Does a freedom fighter fight Freedom?" -- I miss you, George!)

Because of Society's inability to think critically, we have a group member chosen to preside over a small meeting or assembly of the rest of us that, one day, will terminate all known life on Earth.

And, apparently, we're all okay with that. (Except me but there ain't much I can do except bitch about it all.)