Not only the 90s but the 70s and 80s as well. The continual failure to project American power from the Munich Olympics to the Hostages in Iran to the Beirut Marine barracks attack to WTC Bombing I to Mogadishu to the USS Cole, etc. finally led to 9/11. Now we have turned the corner but many don't realize we have to keep moving in the new direction.
After the second plane hit the WTC, I told my son, a freshman in HS at that time, this would be a forever war. They are everywhere and they have no regard for their own lives. You can only negotiate with people who don't want to be killed. Simply put, the Islamofascists must be eliminated. Period.