Sometimes we act, when our puppets misbehave.If, that is, there has ever been one in your lifetime and hopefully, one that we won which for most of you has happened, kind of, only once in your lifetime.
My choice, WWII.
Taking out Noriega and letting him sit in jail the rest of his life, which may have been the only good thing HW did in his four years as President.
Blasting the crap out of the Taliban would have been my choice if we hadn't fucked it up by staying and trying to "nation build"
What does that have to do with Noriega? Do you know why we took him out? That was rhetorical, you obviously don't. What you said was actually pretty stupid, obviously he wouldn't have been engaging in State support of drug trafficing into the US if he was our "puppet." You may want to google that term as well. Not that you understood the definition of executive order you found and posted ...