I’m not a fan of either of them. But every fruit belongs to it’s tree and it how they have to be judged. It makes no sense to hang a watermelon on a birch and for that exact reason neocon(m) nation-building, rose revolutions and arab spring doesn’t work.
Let people of certain nations decide of their own.
The US invasion of Iraq worked too. Saddam is dead. Mission Accomplished.
Maybe it didn't work for Saddam's Russian comrades, but for the USA it worked just fine.