"Throughout its history, the United States has mostly had the luxury of focusing on one ideological terrorist threat at a time."

That is stated as if the individual is unaware of the facts that matter in the case.

The United States were many (13 at the start) States focused on defeating the Empire of Britain as those running that criminal Empire were attacking, in the attempt to enslave everyone in each of the United States.

The Foreign Empire building British Military forces gave up and went home.

Then the United States were facing domestic Empire Builders, but the focus from each State was not focused enough to defeat the domestic enemies.

The Treasonous Frauds took over the United States, consolidating them into one Nation-State Empire Building Criminal Corporate Legal Fiction.

Nothing has changed since then, as the people in the Nation-State Empire Building Criminal Corporate Legal Fiction U.S., has been enslaved since 1789, despite the Bill of Rights failed attempt to fight back against the criminal usurpation.

They, as in those running the Nation-State Legal Fiction, do as they please with their slaves, and they (Treasonous Frauds) make their slaves pay for the cost of enslaving them.

Someone claiming otherwise is someone in a dark cave of their own construction.

Debate in Virginia Ratifying Convention
1788 Elliot 3:89, 430--36, 439--42
[6 June]

George Mason:
"Among the enumerated powers, Congress are to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, and to pay the debts, and to provide for the general welfare and common defence; and by that clause (so often called the sweeping clause) they are to make all laws necessary to execute those laws. Now, suppose oppressions should arise under this government, and any writer should dare to stand forth, and expose to the community at large the abuses of those powers; could not Congress, under the idea of providing for the general welfare, and under their own construction, say that this was destroying the general peace, encouraging sedition, and poisoning the minds of the people? And could they not, in order to provide against this, lay a dangerous restriction On the press? Might they not even bring the trial of this restriction within the ten miles square, when there is no prohibition against it? Might they not thus destroy the trial by jury?"

honestly I don't care if Taliban is in control in Afghanistan. Conversely I care a great deal if and when jihadi attacks are carried out here in my country (USA).
I would hope that any terroristic aggression on American soil or against Americans abroad would be met with disproportionately destructive force against the countries, cities, villages, mosques - which sponsored trained and deployed the attacks against USA.
I do believe in the effectiveness of "the death penalty" as a deterrent to further attacks

No surprise here. Anytime the government declares a “war” on something it is bound to fail and fail miserably. The “war” on drugs comes to mind. The “war” on poverty, the “war” on crime. Blah, blah………