Alternate strategies are just as viable as military strategies

Where would America be now, if instead of invading Iraq in 2003 for a second time they had invested $1 trillion in solar panels and wind farms? 

Here is my conjecture:

Oil would be $40 a barrel and the treasure and more importantly the lives of both soldiers and civilians would remain.  The Middle East would be full of poor dictators unable to buy weapons to keep their people down. The rotted governments would have collapsed from the inside. Real change might have taken root and without the rallying cry of America the Crusader perhaps the moderates would have won.

There are many ways to win. Not all of them are obvious.