"Would we not be better to step back and let "evolution" take care of things"
WHAT!!!!Let them lie back and enjoy being totrured and massacred!!""

So. what is the record of western intervention explained off as a cure "
for these ills in recent history?

Western powers have intervened mostly where there is a clear econonic/political interest,and rarely beyond that (not, to help those impacted by dictatorship, torture or massacre).

Note, thatI do not focus on western government's record of propping up "strong man dictators" as was done in central and south America (and Africa) for years, under the guise of curtailing "the commie boogie man".