The only thing we need to say is that any State-sponsored terrorism (financing, encouraging, hosting or tolerating terrorists) will be treated as an act of war. Full stop. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
I'd rather turn our backs and spend the economic pain on energy alternatives rather than bullets. We need to go there eventually anyway.
I don't want us to interfere, but rooting for moderates to progressives from the sidelines isn't going to hurt anything.