[ZeroGravitas]

> This will be a chapter in American history that we'll later be ashamed of. There have been other such chapters, but in most of them America was at least acting in its own interest. This time we're just being used.

9/11 is the parallel that jumps out to me the most. And while maybe the many American servicepeople killed during the wars that came after that care about the distinction, I'm not sure many of the other dead find it a salient consideration.

And that's assuming you accept that the wars in response to 9/11 were in America's "own interest", which no longer seems to be something you can take for granted even from Republican Presidents.