- was it a Communist govt? (ie. South America, SE Asia)
- was there anybody else that should have intervened? (ie. timid Europe refusing to police the Balkans)
- was there significant public support?
- was the US required to intervene as the sole superpower to maintain order?
- did a neighbor ask/pay for the intervention? (ie. Saudi Arabia and Kuwait paid the US to invade Iraq)
- did a neighboring country fail to maintain order (ie. Pakistan failed to police Afghanistan)
Also, note that Roosevelt ended English, French, Italian, Dutch and German colonialism. Most of their colonies can thank the US for their independence, most notably Indonesia.
The US has probably the world's smallest colonies for a superpower - Rome was nothing but colonies. How leftists twist that into America being evil is absurd.