Should've sent you instead of Pompeo. That's Mattis level rhetoric Afghan goat herders and poppy growers should be able to grasp.
Despite my Libertarian/AnCap leanings, I'm not totally opposed to
invading portions of the Middle East whenever there's something going on there that's a credible threat to Western Civilization.
I'm just opposed to
occupying anything in the Middle East.
For the price of the Iraq and Afghanistan occupations, we could have invaded those places, or others as needed, repeatedly, and with the higher body count (I mean theirs) and op-tempo we normally get during the initial contact, killed lots and lots of Islamist militants in the process, and not exposed our forces to attrition due to garrison strategy.
Invade, kill, leave, repeat. That should be our strategy. If moderate/pro-Western forces or governments can then exploit the power vacuum and take up shop, all the better. If not, we just invade, kill, and leave again and again.