That’s what we should do everywhere we go to war. Why tf try to help your enemies after destroying them? The US loses (or at least fails at completing some goals) almost EVERYTIME we let sympathy control our military decisions.
It has nothing to do with empathy - its solely interest driven.
forging alliances to increase ur influence sphere.
the us used to be great with that - e.g. pushing china out of many asian countries - now they r leaving a void china happily jumps into.
now no1 trusts the current junta - what has been forged carefully for the past 80 years now suddenly is aborted.
it hurts the us and its allies. and strengthens its adversaries