With Europe running the show, this is looking more and more like a repeat of the Somali pirates fiasco.
We'll go to war... but not of it will hurt someone.
We'll support the rebels... but not if that might cause casualties to the other side.
Ohmigod! Some of the rebels aren't really nice people!!!! Quickly, withdraw support before unruly elements within the rebel ranks hurt civilians on the government side!
...and the people running Europe have only now come to the rather startling conclusion that, whichever side wins, there's going to be a flood of refugees seeking asylum? (Easy fix: partition the country so that no one wins and we can send any asylum seekers to whatever side they supported. [Yeah, right...])
We (the West) have become the laughing stock of the rest of the world.