It takes a "highly inclusive" definition of honesty to spew an appeal to political nuance out of one side of your mouth while simultaneously claiming that because this guy comes from a particular political/religious background he must be bad news. Clearly he's done a lot to stabilize the situation and consolidate power. That necessitates some degree of competence and flexibility to work with potentially conflicting groups and individuals beyond "off with the heads of everyone who doesn't believe what I do" type ISIS crap.
Regardless of how bad this guy's politics are I see no reason to care that some sandbox on the literal other side of the world, one that is particularly irrelevant to the economic interests of my nation, is headed by bad people with values I disagree with.
Of course the US peddles war. That's part and parcel with being the global reserve currency.
If some half baked islamic fundamentalist theocracy crap is the price of local stability that sounds pretty cheap to me, and it probably sounds even cheaper to the people who've had to live with the instability. If Europe has a problem with that in their back yard they can whack him and they can own the quagmire.