I think you'll have to be more specific than that. If your hangup is that this is yet another instance of Westerners attempting to decide the fate of a people

I think you'll have to be more specific than that. If your hangup is that this is yet another instance of Westerners attempting to decide the fate of a people on the otherside of the planet from them, I think we can grant that there isn't a stellar track record there. Still, ideal scenarios of perfect sovereignty don't exist in the real world and I think it's perfectly reasonable to expect e.g. Japan to ask for continued American involvement.