Doing things like that out in the open with huge media coverage is a lot different than funneling in arms as covertly as possible and letting the CIA pick which countries it wants to destabilize.
We actually have a pretty poor track record in muslim majority countries in general. The US-backed Indonesian coup in '65 got a lot of innocent people killed, not that Sukarno was a pleasant person but they guy we replaced him with was worse.
1. War & Force in Global Politics
2. International Political Economy
3. English Lit
4. International Law
5. American Chief Executive
Im in year 2 of 5 so hopefully this will improve.