Yes perhaps the western NATO forces should have totally kept out and let the conflict take its course. But media coverage was extensive and quite horrific, and we had to be seen to be doing something? So a partial involvement dragged on, and dragged it on? Certainly it seemed to mark the start of fuller and deeper involvement of the UKs Armed Forces all over the world after a long period of cold war (bar GW 1), for after we had many operations, each seeming to grow more and more; Kosovo, Sierra Leone...Blair was in charge..it was the start of something~.
The RN were desperate to be involved, looking ahead to get the next carrier project going, CVS was ageing, that was the driver for them.
~only my opinion, I'm bound to be put right.