We either take the view that we don’t intervene, and stand by as despicable regimes abuse their people.
Or intervene where we can, and in the national interest, as after all we do not have the resources to intervene in all places, and some of them are far bigger/stronger than us.
By intervene, I mean with the backing of international support. After all not everone will agree what the outcome will be.
Without massive overwhelming power and a thought through post operation plan, anything that will be done will more than likely leave the country in a poor state – Iraq, Libya. And without having full international backing, any present day interventions will not have a fully sucessful outcome.
So lets stand idly by and do nowt….