Perhaps the US should be obligated to welcome as refugees all the people who are compelled to flee by the consequences of its foreign interventions. That rule would make officials less eager to intervene.

A proper statement of the real rule of a pottery store is, "If you break it, you have to pay full price for the pieces."

Unfortunately, no one knows how to fix a country that has been devastated in this way, not even with billions to spend. The Marshall Plan worked well in western Europe, but that may be because the beneficiary countries already had traditions of democracy, business, unions, and other things, which only needed to be resuscitated.