!! No, we don't, we make huge bases we call "the U.S. Embassy" and try to run the country from there with puppet emirs. For 15 or 20 years before we give up and flee overnight, like all the famous British evacuations: the last one in Afghanistan was a lot like the British evacuation of Greece in WWII, silent, at night! I remember a Brit decades ago told me his favorite quote from their 1800s war in Afghanistan ---- "they always kill the emirs." Yeah, our last puppet fled the country as fast as he could get out when the Taliban neared Kabul. We don't give them back the country, we LOSE.
We don't even fight a real war, just colonize for our own security, which doesn't work, with a shock and awe invasion and then pretending to be their newest bestest wittle friendsies. Which no one at all believes, of course. Though some people in-country try to get money and a Green Card out of it.
I understand why we don't fight a real war --- because it looks bad to be constantly defeating smaller countries and that's what Hitler did and the world gangs up on countries like that. Japan also comes to mind. We used to be big and strong (no more, obviously) but no country can stand against a world united against us. So we do these useless "humanitarian" wars with lies aplenty, and they don't work either.
I think the whole pattern just ran out; new situation coming.
