How do you get “wants”? Clinton allowed the flames of this fire to get out of control. When the Blackhawk Down incident occurred and Clinton pulled the military out of Somolia Bin Laden concluded that the US was a Paper Tiger and it was incapable of taking casualties. Hence the attacks continued and grew in intensity.
Remember the Embassy in Kenya being bombed, the Embassy in Tanzania, the attack on the USS Cole.
Only the ignorant or liars claim that this was a non-problem that Bush exploited. Saddam’s money was spread throughout the terror underground. He trained, supported and exported Terrorists.
Left uncontrolled these wild animals will destroy us all. They can be mollified only with our blood or submission to Allah.
These are the costs of being a Great Power and cannot be avoided. Europe tried to kick the can down the road in the 1930s but wound up paying a much greater price in wealth and lives for that effort.
We have had over 100,000 troops in Europe for decades which are no longer needed there. We have 25,000 in Korea and tens of thousands in other countries. Redeployment of some of these forces are in order.
We can pretend that we have no enemies and allow them to grow stronger and more deadly as Clinton did but will stil have to face the music. My preference is to do it now rather than force our children to face it.