Afghanistan was invaded as payback for 911. You do remember 911, don't you?
Iraq was warred upon because it invaded Kuwait.
W got convinced it was in our best interests to depose SH.
Turned out to be an invasion of aggression instead of a semi-defensive one.
That said, the region was terribly destabilized with the overthrow of Hussein and the winning of that war.
We still have Army and Air Force and Navy bases on the land of the Axis powers some 70 + years after the conclusion of WWII.
We still have a lot of military in Korea some 60 + years after the Korean War ended.
Obama and the "Progressives" couldn't stand that we won that war. They grew up during the Viet Nam War era, and they believe that the US just isn't supposed to win wars.
So, instead of maintaining a presence there and trying to stabilize the region, they turned tail and ran.
That created a huge power vacuum that was filled by Fundamentally Insane followers of Islam.
Then Hillary and now Kerry began pursuing irrational moves that accelerated the destabilization of the entire region.
They backed the Muslim Brotherhood's Arab Spring toppling of the Democratic pro-western Egyptian government.
They killed Gadaffi and by many accounts they're arming the ISIS/ISIL/fuc ktards.
They're trying their damnedest to remove Assad from Syria and are on the brink of war with its ally - Russia over it.
In a series of cluster-f uck moves, they let Russia retake Ukraine.
Now they're making some headway against ISIS, and they have no idea on how to deal with the fallout from that other than say an evil diaspora will be in our neighborhoods soon.
Progressive leadership is a joke. It's a M. F.ing joke.