I know this is a meme so I shouldn’t look for historic accuracy here but a the vast majority of the US, and many of our allies, were on board for an invasion of the Middle East (Afghanistan) in 2001 after 9/11. It was the invasion of Iraq in 2003 that turned many people off.

Afghanistan is in Southwest Asia, not the middle east, fyi

I dunno, the TV showed sand and camels and that’s the only thing I understand to exist in the middle east.