No, we pay their brutal despots. We send their brutal despots military hardware, and when it suits our politicians we go to war to put their despots back in power. If I'd told you 13 years ago that sending our military, sworn to defend the Constitution of the United States, halfway around the world to put a king back on his throne, would give cause to terrorists to kill thousands of Americans and embroil us further in the mess called the Middle East, would you still be in favor of it? Intervention begets intervention. Washington warned, some people never learn.