Well he's right you know

People have short memories- especially kids who weren’t alive to experience much history. It’s a catch 22. It’s often the same people who want to US to pull out of a foreign country that will then criticize the US for bombing a country and then leaving. It’s often the same people who call the US an imperialist nation that will criticize it for not occupying and absorbing territory but leaving. Yes- for many conflicts we could argue all day that the USA shouldn’t have been there to begin. But you can’t chane history. Once boots hit the ground forces are committed and you have a choice to make- stay or leave. So which would be better? The US leaving the conflict region after devastating it, or sticking around for decades and bringing American government styles and culture to the region, maybe even absorbing it? Neither tends to be perfect. But many people don’t understand the logistics of conflict, the politics or basic history.

The USA occupied Japan post WW2 and really never left. Destroyed a generational dynastic system of government, worked on breaking up the Zaibatsu system of family owned monopolies, and had HUGE impact on the culture and even basic workings of Japan. It was a fear of Asian communism that stopped the “democratization” of Japan and left many zaibatsu functioning in a new lateral monopoly as opposed to verticals monopoly. The mass post war industry of Japan is in large part due to this policy change as GHQ wanted to prioritize economy first to present communist sentiment. That led to the 1980’s Japanese industrial domination. But so much more about japan from anime to Godzilla to panty vending machines and more is a direct consequence of western occupation. The closest thing to such radical cultural shift was the Meiji era and that took far longer to effect deep changes to the society.

All birds do that period. Even if they are just attacking a piece of bread on the sidewalk