Anecdote is not correlation. Also, it's worth noting that the US has a quasi-stable cycle of invading other countries for about a decade, then a roughly decade

Anecdote is not correlation. Also, it's worth noting that the US has a quasi-stable cycle of invading other countries for about a decade, then a roughly decade long policy of non-interventionism while they try to forget what a horrible quagmire they got themselves into the last decade.