Re:You can't be this naive ... (Score 1)

Should we always keep out of other people's countries? When we hear of terrible atrocities being committed by armed forces against innocent people?

I am in no way suggesting that this was all, some or any of the reason for the current incursions in Iraq and Afghanistan but to say that we should never ever get involved in other countries' affair strikes me as an equally bad idea.

"I'm OK, let them look after themselves" is a bad reason to avoid conflicts. Wishing to extend your power base, improve your access to resources, go down in history as a great leader, these are all bad reasons to seek conflict. But now and then, when all other options are gone, "War is diplomacy by other means".