Point is nation building was the endgame. Does it matter that it wasn’t the plan from the get-go? Granted, it wasn’t. Churchill, FDR, etc. were shockingly shortsighted. They ended up with nation building, and therefore that is what the war was fought for.
Sorry, but it makes a WORLD officer difference to the American people. Just remember that correlation does not imply causation.
Nation building was not the end game, it was the end result - two totally different things.
If you are playing a game of football and the other team fires their coach because his team lost does not imply that you were playing to get him fired.