“We police the world’s hellholes because we want to remain the world’s superpower. We do not want the chaos that would come if we stood down. “
That’s crap. We caused massive chaos by invading Iraq and destroying Libay - and by fund the jihadis in Syria. This was all the doing of Bush Jr. (Iraq), Obama (Libya), and McCain and Hillary (Syria). Trump said it was all a massive waste of US money, and we should focus on America, not nation-building in the middle east.
The follies and failures you refer to are in part why Trump was elected. The remedy for a bad strategy is to get a better strategy and a better strategist who recognizes unappealing truths. Along those lines, under Trump, we now seem to see that Islam is problematic and that its pathologies are at the heart of much of the ills of Muslim societies and peoples.