I greatly prefer the Bush doctrine of taking the fight to the enemy rather than inviting them to live with us.
Bush did not stop the enemy from living with us. He never stopped Muslim immigration.
I’m not really interested in rehashing the Iraq war. I’m only pointing out that Jeb was incorrect and I’m calling him on it. Trump went easy on him. Pretty sure Hillary would have crushed his testicles when he said that.
If Patton and MacArthur were still around, Pakistan which created the Taliban and harbored Bin Laden and Saudi Arabia, which spawned Al-Quaeda would have been conquered like Germany and Japan in WW II.
W Bush did not do that and he did nothing when the Iranian IED’s were killing our soliders in Iraq.
We fought another Korea and Vietnam after 9/11, albeit with lower casualty rates and higher technology.
The neocons of the Republican camp eventually decided some Al-Quaeda were good just like Nixon thought there were good Communists in the Cold War like in China and Romania.
The intervention in Syria backed by McCain, Graham etc. supporting terrorist elements spawned the Islamic State.