Tinker free zones

The issue of refugees escaping war zones and its effect on settled societies makes one wonder how we came to this impasse. In the wars fought in the distant past there was no reflection on the rights and wrongs of what happened or the consequences to the victim. Everything was too far away and the time delay somehow inoculated you from feeling connected.

Today we are in a very different world. From a position of not caring we have moved to a position  where we care too much.
We care about everything. We try to find a space in our lives for everyone. We feel we are not normal unless we grieve.
The most recent wars were wars not about our being threatened but that our code of 'right and wrong' was being threatened. We went to war to punish the people in charge who were not following the stereotypical Western standard. Regime change was the new game as we sort to impose our concept on tyrannical societies throughout the globe and sent in the troops to remove the culture of a nation for something more palatable to our norms.
Our lack of understanding the very intricacies of control, within the regimes which we were even more out of touch with and our inability to understanding the tribal arrangements and the despotic control needed to keep everyone in line.
Al Qaeda were the only group to threaten the west (Twin Towers) but groups like the Taliban (who had been funded by the Americans to fight the Russians)  and their Muslim obsession with the position of women in society meant that the war in Afghanistan was made more complicated.
Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi and the resulting Arab Spring, upheavals all over the place as the West interfered with the balance of power. Syria is a case in point, the current nightmare was made worse by our intervention, even if we were doing it as some sort of of civilising agenda righting the wrongs of humanity we failed to understand that our concept of humanity is not necessarily theirs.
The United Nations was created to take care of providing some sort of baseline regarding human relations but the UN became a talking shop peopled by politicians and diplomats who are not the best people to deliver humanitarianism.
Perhaps the massacres and the famine's, the corruption and plague are natural phenomena and we tinker with them at or peril.