Actually, we did not need to own squat. That we started to show interest in their internal politics is when we had responsibility to the outcome (owning it)
We simply had to demonstrate what happens to those who attack us, (we did) and then leave (we did not). What they do with the aftermath is not our concern, never should have been. That is their problem. Only when they attack us, they get the pee pee whacked, every time, guaranteed. Their own politics is their own politics.
They simply do not understand the finer nuances of civility. Not until they themselves want it.
I agree with that mostly, but what really gets my goat is giving up land our men fought and died for to islamists.
I don’t know if I am right or wrong to be mad about that, honestly, but we have men who died and men who were blown to pieces and are still alive with those wounds, and I ask what the Hell was it for?
But I want to be careful not to cheapen or devalue what they did, so that is why I say I am angry, but I don’t know if I am right or wrong in my anger.