"McKinley is like Bush in that the two of them invaded countries (in McKinley's case, an Asian possession of Spain, with which the US was at war over possessions in the Caribbean) which were no imminent threat to the US for strategic reasons, only to encounter a mixed reception from the people who lived there."

What president in America has failed to invade a country which was not imminent threat?

Kosovo couldn't by any stretch of imagination be a imminent threat to US? How was Somalia a imminent threat? Haiti a imminent threat?
And let's not get into all the countries that Clinton bombed.

Name me American Presidents that didn't invade a country in last 60 years? And of the ones that were invaded which were imminent threats. Was it really necessary to invade Germany or Japan. What did Vichy France do to warrant invasion? Was Vichy France an imminent threat to America?

What country has ever actually attacked us in America- Japan attack mainly a miltary base mainly against Battle ship which were threaten it- not a city like LA or Seatle.

It takes lunatics to attack the US. But when they actually fly planes into the World Trade Center, your suggestion is what?
And when a dictator invades an small country, threaten and with miltary force actually enters Saudi Arabia, and then when dictator gets his ass handed to him, and seeks to end the conflict by signing cease fire agreement. Doesn't seem the at least the guy could do is follow the cease fire agreement?

And went we investigate crimes such as the attempt to blow up the World Trade Center [and failed because the explosive was not powerful enough to do the job], and after months we find out that agents from Iraq were involved. Or when agents of Iraq try to kill a Bush Sr- the Commander in chief of America during the time of the conflict which Saddam lost the war and signed a cease fire agreement.
Why didn't simply turn Iraq into a glass parking lot is sometimes a bit of mystery- assuming that is that we really are an Imperial superpower that lefties are always claiming [perhaps hoping] that we are.