Americans conquer a land , improve the condition of the people , give them gifts of huge size , empower the people and leave. I don't feel like apologiseing for stepping on the necks of tyrants even if we are big enough to make the tyrant seem like David.
Americans invade, install a puppet government and economic controls that favor US companies, get the government addicted to the US market, then use it as a tool for extracting money. This is what they have done and are doing in Mexico and Central America. The percentage of middle class Mexicans has not changed upwards in thirty years, although in the 80's it plummeted.
US products like Marlboro, Coca-Cola, Burger King, McDonald's, etc. are hawked through all manner of advertising and sold at near US prices. Shops are offered a huge discount to stop selling non-Coke and non-Pepsi locally made products. Once the locals are run out of business, they collaborate to form monopolies. If the US gives "huge gifts", these are given to a few of the elite.
And the US does not give a sh*t about empowerment of the people. Go anywhere that the US has taken over-- Korea, the Dominican Republic, Salvador, Panama, Grenada, and ask the people if they feel "empowered". The US has installed far more tyrants than they have overthrown.