Achana na embassies, too many factors out of your control on foreign soil, lets talk about home turf.
There hasn't been a single sucessful attack by Al Qaeda or ISIS in the US since the Twin Towers attack, in 18 years Americans have foiled every attack in all 52 states.
We declared war on Al Shabaab in October of 2012, 7 years later we have lost more than 500 Kenyans, (a global terrorism database claims we have lost 969 in 373 attacks), we have spent atleast Kes 200B every year on the the Interior and Defence dockets, more than a trillion since we went to war. Do we look like we are winning?