Please.  What made us all "less safe" was the US intelligence community sending war to Iraq over dubious "weapons of mass destruction" and the ominous spectre of Saddam showing the world "a mushroom cloud", and "yellowcake uranium coming from Niger".

That catastropic, epic fail caused:  Al-Queda in Iraq.  ISIS in both Syria and Iraq.  The Firebrand Cleric (forget his name).  ISIS in Libya.  Great old "US assets" in Syria causing hundreds of thousands of civilian casualties and a humanitarian disaster that is still ongoing.  Yemen, whatever on earth is going on there.  The ongoing stupidity in Afghanistan, crooked corrupt puppet regimes after ISAF spent a great deal of blood and treasure, the ongoing resilience of the Taliban.  The resulting creation of ISIS has spurned terrorist attacks, multiple in France and more elsewhere, including the United States.  The disastrous meddling in Ukraine, causing Russia to annex Crimea.  Betting against these nincompoops nets you batting 1000.