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.
But war is not a game, and it is mott over when the whistle blows. Because there is no whistle. Not to say that what happens thirty years down the road is still part of the last war, but certainly occupation, settlement, demilitarization, installation of new government, etc., are.
Now, you may define terms in such a way as to restrict warfare to physical combat, in which case I must agree nation building came afterwards. But that’s not the way people talk, and anyway it’s not the conversation I want to have. If what comes after major combat operations is not war, let us call it “x” and agree the “x” if WWII was nation building.
“it makes a WORLD of difference to the Amrrican people”
What does? Knowing we won and crushed the Nazi/Hun and made the world safe fir the UN? Naturally. But what does that have to do with what we’re talking about, exactly?
“correlation does not imply causation”
Huh?
Oh, wait, you meant it makes a difference to the People whether it was the plan all along. No, it doesn’t. We only pretend like it does when things end up badly. Ot should I say really obviously badly, since the tragedies that were post-WWI and II got by almost everyone.