text: The RG should always publish letters from all sides, even from people who hold views completely invalidated by history and human nature.  It's called "know thine enemy".
  
  Outsider77 is right.  No nation has the right to interfere in the internal affairs of another no matter how altruistic the justifications officially given by the nation interfering or how horrid the conditions within the nation being interfered with.  The excuses are usually lies as a little follow the money research often shows.
  
  That I hold this view does not mean that I approve of murderous, thieving dictators.  It's why I oppose corporate oligarchy in America, for example, and right-wing Christian theocracy.
  
  Having interfered in Syria and the Middle East in general which has prolonged and intensified the brutality Western nations including the U.S. are obligated to take in the refugees from those conflicts even if we risk importing terrorists.  The lesson of non-interference must be learned the hard way.