Bullshit. If you want to talk ncompetence talk Beirut barracks bombing and 300 dead soldiers. THAT WAS INCOMPETENCE!
Talk about going to ar in Iraq over ghosts of WMD. THAT WAS CRIMINAL NCOMPETENCE!!
America will keep influencing the world, and will keep placing its officials in harms way. How many US Ambassadors and embassy personnel been killed over the last 40 years? MANY.
The name of the game. No pain, no gain.