Why did Arjuna to avenge Abhimanyu kill the weaker Jayadratha and not a stronger opponent like Karna?

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Question Why did Arjuna take a vow to kill Jaidrath instead of some of the other stronger enemies such as Karna after Abhimanyu was killed? Even Karna was a part of the people, six people who killed Abhimanyu.
So Jaidrath was relatively weaker and why did Arjuna choose a weaker target? Was it because he was not confident that he could kill Karna? Answer No Arjuna’s resolve to revenge Abhimanyu’s death by killing Jaidrath had nothing to do with the weakness or strength of any particular opponent. It was based on, that resolve was based on who had been most responsible for Abhimanyu’s death. Now in a war there are different factors which may combine to cause the death of a particular warrior but there is some particular cause which is like the defining cause.
It’s like sometimes people hire assassins. Now that mercenary killer, that person may shoot the trigger or push the knife into the heart but the cause of the death primarily is the person who paid the mercenary. So like that there may be different levels of causation and who is responsible for death needs to be carefully understood.
Is it the murderer or the person who paid the murderer? Person who paid the murderer is naturally more responsible. So similarly if we see in the case of Abhimanyu’s death the Pandavas apart from Arjuna who was fighting with Susharma and his army of Trigartas at another side of the war the remaining Pandavas Yudhishthir, Bhima and others they had come up with a plan to break the Chakravyuha and that plan centered on Abhimanyu breaking into the Chakravyuha and thereafter after having broken in then to follow him and then after having entered the Chakravyuha to devastate it from within and things went according to plan. Abhimanyu broke through the Chakravyuha and the Pandava warriors not the Pandavas alone, others were also there they were all rushing in through the breach that Abhimanyu had created but right at that time Jaidrath came in between and Jaidrath used a benediction that he had got from Shiva and based on the strength of that benediction he stopped the Pandavas from following Abhimanyu and Bhima and Yudhishthir and Nakula and Sahadeva and Trishuljuna all these warriors were ferociously attacking but Jaidrath being empowered by the blessing of Shiva was able to hold them all back now Jaidrath understood what he was doing Jaidrath understood clearly that by holding the Pandavas back he was basically ensuring the death of Abhimanyu because no matter how valorous a warrior Abhimanyu might be still alone he would not be able to hold himself in front of the whole Kaurava army so Jaidrath could have used that boon which Shiva had given at any other time also but he used it this time in such a way that it surely caused the death of Abhimanyu while Jaidrath held the Pandavas back then the Kaurava soldiers regrouped and they closed the breach and Abhimanyu was trapped inside and Abhimanyu fought valorously and later on there were six Kshatriyas who Maharathas who attacked together and then eventually Durjaya the son of Dushyasan killed Abhimanyu so that was all later actually Yudhishthira as soon as Yudhishthira saw the breach being closed that time he understood that Abhimanyu is dead he was devastated and eventually when he heard the victory cries of the Pandavas of the Kauravas he understood that the inevitable has happened now when Abhimanyu heard when Arjuna came back and heard about what had transpired he was furious about the unfair and the brutal way in which six Kaurava Maharathas had combined to kill Abhimanyu but at the same time he understood that that whole death that whole situation where Abhimanyu was rendered helpless and was outnumbered and helpless that whole situation resulted because of Jaidrath’s malicious use of his his boon for exceptional power at such a situation which would eventually spell the death of Abhimanyu so it was for that reason Jaidrath had been the main cause of Abhimanyu’s death that Arjuna decided to avenge Abhimanyu’s death by killing Jaidrath and then if you move forward actually when Abhimanyu killed when Arjuna had to kill Jaidrath it was not easy for him Arjuna had to go through the whole Kaurava forces in fact Drona at the instigation of Duryodhana arranged the whole Kaurava army so that the whole Kaurava army would be protecting Jaidrath and Arjuna had to go through Duryodhana, Drona and eventually later Karna and Ashwathama and he went through all of them so what to speak of overcoming the much stronger Karna Arjuna overcame everyone over there practically the entire Kaurava army Arjuna overcame in a single day miles and miles of forces were there between him and Jaidrath was at the other end of that gigantic military formation and Arjuna penetrated through all so in this way it was more based on a strategic understanding of who had caused Abhimanyu’s death that Arjuna took his vow to revenge it by killing Jaidrath and he had to if he had simply taken a vow to kill Karna that would not have caused him as much difficulty if he had to fight Karna alone as he had to undergo when he had taken a vow to kill Jaidrath and had to go through the entire Kaurava army to reach Jaidrath Thank you