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Since the 1990s really. For example, when the US bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade in ‘99, and then a US spy plane was captured after it went down over China in April 2001. Then 9-11 happened a few months later and the US got distracted for a decade and a half or so.
Invading Afghanistan was a choice. If anyone 'distracted' the US, it was the US itself.
Yes, please feel free to read “got distracted” in that manner, apologies for my somewhat vague and passive language. The US is a bloodthirsty country and found itself a more tempting set of victims for a few years, to put it a bit more dramatically.