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Moni, it is late and I am tired. Otherwise, I would answer you at much greater length.
For now I will just say that in all the examples you named, there were reasons of national self-interest behind each.
The US does not typically do anything at all on the international scene, unless it is in the national interest, the same as other countries. That is the historical and political reality.
The actions of the Red Cross and other private organizations clearly are not the same as actions of the US government. The government cannot take credit for such.
One major exception, a rare case where the US gov't and military intervened for truly noble reasons, was Kosovo. As it turns out, President Clinton and his government received tremendous criticism from other Americans for doing so. Apparently, the idea of risking US lives for purely noble objectives for once was quite objectionable to many Americans.
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