“When you take the way of the emBASEee strategee, there’s always a national interest at stake.”
That is your creation; and, from how you described it, it its potential is more problematical than beneficial to our interests. Our national interests must be pre-existent, and not be created by dreams of hegemony.
“And grunts are dying for American land.”
American lands ARE our national interest. And embassies should be defended, not used to launch military attacks against the host country or anyone else.
I answered over here
https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4043681/posts?page=12#12