> Does anyone question why we have Special Forces in any of those countries? <
You might get some flak over asking that question, but it is a fair question to ask. Are we to become like the British Empire, an empire that found reasons to be everywhere, all of the time?
The British had an economic interest in the colonies they managed and they did it with a very light footprint. Believe it or not.
We are like the total opposite of an empire. We find the most awful places with no possible economic benefit to anyone and expend money, resources and the lives of our soldiers on them FOR NOTHING!
We have to be the dumbest power in the history of the World!