Or, we could be in the right places at once. We withdrew from Afghanistan because it was unsupportable. The US is a naval power. Lacking strong alliances and a coastline we could not sustain our support for the Afghan government. The Pakistanis are the closest ally of China. They f'd us over too many times during the GWOT. Central Asian countries are under Putin's thumb. Ukraine and Taiwan are much surer places to build the bulwarks of democracy.
But go ahead and keep chirping.