Get ready for more analysis like this. The irony is self-evident: the mainstream media is implying that American power is a force for good. That these countries are falling apart in the absence of a strong American political and military presence. What they leave out, of course, is that all of these countries were radically destabilized by American foreign policy: invasions, propping up corrupt, unpopular dictatorships, funneling arms in civil conflicts, sometimes to both sides, and so on.
This narrative is interestingly analogous to the rise of the Nazis in Germany during the late 1920s and early 1930s. Nazis would brawl in the streets, disturbing the public order. Then they would tell the authorities that only they could restore peace in the streets. The peace that they themselves had destroyed.