It&#x27;s debatable.  Do you stand aside and look the other way and say, that&#x27;s their lot in the world, or do you do something.<p>It&#x27;s not an was call.  If you do nothing people die.  If you try to do something people will die.  The idea is to pave a better path to the future.<p>To be sure, going into Iraq was a fools errand, but it&#x27;s more difficult to make the call about lets say strife in Africa, or the Caucasus, etc.<p>Or even today, do we say, forget Syria.  Seal it up, let them sort things out and condemn a whole country&#x27;s population to great suffering?