Answer: they did not set up a church-run state.
Us influence began expanding in the 19th century, following Monroe Doctrine which defended Latin America countries from European influence in the same manner that is helped US shed off Britain. They later even engaged in help with troops and benefits, both in 19th, and 20th century, even now in the 21st.
I would say that B was the case ie Bush's prediction that Iraq's defeat would be quick and cheap was wrong. I believe that the US under Bush had no right to invade Iraq which was a sovereign country definitely with no weapons of mass destruction and its people had a high standard of living and women were much more emanicipated than in many other Arab countries like Saudi Arabia which the US is a staunch ally of. Also, it was gross hypocrisy when before the US had been an ally of Saddam Hussein during the war between Iraq and Iran and supplied him with arms.
Vice president Thomas Jefferson defeated president John Adams. It was a realigning election that ushered in a generation of Democratic-Republican Party rule and the demise of the Federalist Party in the First Party System.
They didn't know that the world was round, at least some of them. The majority of people believed that the world was flat and that you could fall right off the edge.