One would have hoped so but now they are moving on to Bashar al-Assad, I don't think any lessons have been learnt.
Why is it down to us? We aren't here to baby sit the rest of the world and hold everyones hand through all of life's problems. Civil War is just that, a war between citizens of the same country. If they have a problem they should sort it out like we did back in the mid 1600's when the "Roundheads" and "Cavaliers" went to war.
Of course we can progress, no one is saying you can't empathise or sympathise but since when were the worlds problems down to us to sort out? The UK should start looking closer to home if it wants to make changes for the better. If it is political or religious and overseas it is not our place to get involved imo.
Of course I wouldn't ignore that and I haven't in the past.
Don't get me wrong I totally understand where you are coming from but in this day in age don't we not just make things worse by interfering? Take Saddam Hussain & Osama Bin Laden, from our point of view murdering tyrants but by eliminating them we have just made thing worse not better.
We have also managed put the UK firmly in the sites of a bunch of nutters who think we are all fair game because of what happened. We are getting involved in religions and fairly backward cultures* that we know very little about. In an ideal world there would be a balance of wealth and we wouldn't have the elderly and children starving to death while the rest of the world throws away tonnes of food on a daily basis.
Again Western ideals being put on Eastern people, is that not what caused these problem in the first place. Where do we get off putting our ideals on other people, cultures and nations. We all evolve at different rates and in different ways, what is right for one nation is not necessarily right for another.
* By backwards cultures I mean cultures that think stoning to death of women, raping of women, sex with both male and female children, death sentences for poultry crimes are all acceptable.