There is ocean size difference between going after terrorists with special units such as the Navy Seals and starting wars with sovereign nations without conclusive evidence of WMD’s. For example spending 2 Trillion dollars borrowed from China and Japan to attack Iraq was an ocean size folly. A country with debt bigger than GDP has no business protecting oil supplies to China and Japan from middle-east with borrowed money from China and Japan. It is plain stupid.
Under the fearless leadership of President George W. Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney as well as our brave military, Iraq was vanquished in short order. And indeed "we fought them over there so we don't have to fight them here" was a winning strategy. Regardless of some of the shortcomings of the Bush/Cheney team, America was kept safe under their watch.
The fiasco of Iraq started under the obama regime and it goes without saying that the terrorism held in check by President Bush and his administration flourished once hussein bama and his corrupt pro-muzzie cronies took office.