...The Americans were seen as liberators by the majority of people in Iraq and Afghanistan, especially at the outset.
It wasn't until years of Obama mismanagement that things started *seriously* going to shit, and even then, I guarantee you most of the Iraqis would have rather had a permanent American military presence than what's happened since then.
Afghanistan is messier, especially because of what a lot of local 'allies' were allowed to get up to, but there certainly was a fair bit of good will there as well, at least at the outset.
Why do some of you people think that the US rolling up and crushing the worst of the local criminal element like bugs will make everybody mad at us?