I usually think that George W. Bush was the worst president in the history of the republic with his useless stupid invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, but if his unique policies prevented more 9/11 type attacks on America, policies that would not have been duplicated by other politicians, then he was a good president in that respect.
On the one hand, I don’t care what we do to suspected terrorists who pal around with terrorists and are not American citizens. On the one hand, I don’t care about this new CIA report on torturing suspects. On the other hand, I care about stopping this bad behavior if it leads to bad things for Americans.