Usually it's a salvation to be occupied by US compared to Russia - they just kill, steal and trash territory making it doomed (Transnistria, Osetia, Ukraine teritories, Kuril islands) - a true Mordor.
Syria?
Iraq?
Afghanistan?
Cambodia?
Pakistan?
Yemen?
Nigeria?
Germany
South Korea
Every Western nation supported by the Marshall plan
You're right, but it goes both ways and not 100% one way or the other
But what it is doing today is a terrible, atrocious tragedy, and its far beyond the point where the means justify the ends.
I mean that as someone who follows closely the cost of American warfare, and as someone who refuses to ignore the human tragedy it is bringing to current generations of people who really, really do not deserve to have had their infrastructure utterly destroyed, their lives ruined, their children left in rubble, on a daily basis, because some smart American decided it had to be so.
The US has had north of 100k troops in Iraq for 7 years, then about 50k for 3 more years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War_troop_surge_of_2007#/...
Fuck, its 2017, are we really still explaining this? Of course we are. We must.
Just look at Germany, Japan, Korea, Iraq, ...