Then what did you want?
This is probably what irks me the most when it comes to dealing with anybody with strong philosophies and beliefs. They seem to only want what they want, and nothing else.
Myself, I held 2 clear goals for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In Afghanistan, it was ending the rule of a pseudo-government which led it's region by terror. Public stoning for any transgression (real or imagined) was the rule, and assassination and terror were their main means of enforcing and expanding the area they controlled. There was no law other than what the leaders said it was. And that was subject to change at a whim. And in addition, they harbored, supported, and worked with an International Terrorist Organization, which had been carrying out attacks in multiple nations for over a decade.
In Iraq, it was simply to see the genocidal butcher who had not only killed hundreds of thousands, but had deposited at least half a million into mass graves all over his nation. A leader who had started 2 different wars of conquest, violated UN sanction after UN sanction, and even fired upon UN coalition aircraft monitoring a "No Fly Zone" that had been set up to protect his own people from his actions. A leader who openly bragged about using the families of diplomats as human shields. A man who purposefully starved huge areas of his nation so he could live in scores of different palaces with gold toilets.
Now what came afterwards, that is completely and utterly besides the point. Those were the goals of the 2 wars, and I supported both primarily for humanitarian reasons. Now establishing the peace afterwards is not a military job, that is for the diplomats and politicians to work out. But to be honest I think both were blown from day 1.