Tartare:
Who's to say there isn't a plan - and an exit strategy.
Recent history is a good indicator...
As someone just said... Trusting the polis in this basically only costs the lives of good men and women. Time to send the polis and let the good people stay home... Then they will have a better appreciation for human life.
Up until 20-30 years ago most polis had served in WWII etc. and understand what it means. Now we have a bunch of useless wankers throwing bodies down range with no care in the world.
No matter what we do it will be the wrong thing for the region and will end up being the wrong thing for us, (UK and US)... Screw them, let them squabble amongst themselves and then deal firmly with the result.