While I'm an advocate of the US entirely removing itself militarily from the Middle East, none of those properly qualify against the parent's point. The parent

While I'm an advocate of the US entirely removing itself militarily from the Middle East, none of those properly qualify against the parent's point. The parent referred to starting wars. The first one doesn't qualify at all. The US and NATO have intervened in the two civil wars (along with numerous other countries; with France recently pleading with the US to remain in Syria). It's an overreach to claim the US started the Libyan Civil War or the Syrian Civil War, neither is true. The US was opportunistic in trying to squeeze Syria's dictator Bashar al-Assad out (with Russia on the other side, trying to prop up the dictatorship). Those civil wars are the inevitable result of decades of extreme oppression by dictatorship, which will always end in armed revolution.