I am not American, so the 'you guys' is not relevant. I am a realist that reads up and understands dynamics. It is bad what foreign interference has happened in Pakistan , with military's co-opting to install the Govt that got put in place. But this is not a forum for griping about that.
I was giving the other examples as a realist that at the detriment of Palestinians, the policy has worked and other examples it has worked and not to establish Taliban failure as an indicator of what will happen in Russia