And the last much publicised Syrian intervention has been a debacle tooI understand your question is rhetorical but as I mentioned in a previous post, it's the British way although really, it's the tory way. it's what the rich, land-owning monarchists do in the name of the people. That they do is simply a huge lie as any such military interventions are not about protecting the interests of ordinary people; they are all to do with the interests of the rich and only the rich.
Those people I describe are tories and anyone who has ever read history could come to no other conclusion. The tory way is imposition, aggression and downright violence. That has always been their way of controlling the lower classes and weak, foreign nations.
May is simply the latest in a long line of fascists with no interest in any kind of social improvement for the population. Her main concern and that of all tories is about increasing the wealth of the few at the expense of the many. In that regard, any overseas sojourns by British troops makes money for the rich suppliers of military equipment and armaments for which those on PAYE, the only people who pay the correct amount of tax, foot the bill - so much for austerity and being 'all in it
together'!
Tom
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/syria-civil-war-isis-uk-assad-iraq-air-strikes-phantom-allies-government-a7319426.html
But then, they always are, and we end up not only with millions of human beings with ruined lives and displaced from Home, Family and Country but the Brexit situation as collateral damage to us.
Madness.