"After we ended their second round of senseless war, we chose to keep our troops in Europe rather than bring them home; where they remain today (and as long as they've been there, the major European powers have behaved themselves)."
Yes, we in Europe are so glad of America's frequent disinterested intervention and for raising us all on to a much higher moral plane than that occupied by our antiquated political and religious systems.
Perhaps you'd prefer that the U.S. simply left you to your own devices.
But tell me, how precisely would that have worked out for you circa 1944?
Speak German or Russian? If not just says thanks