sometimes going back to basics is the best way forward - continually adding more complexity is not always the solution
and you are certainly correct about not being a settled place - not sure if it ever has been, but up to the Arab Spring it would have been a very safe country to visit with many citizens enjoying a quality of life, yes, a horrible brutal dictator but this part of the world is insane and can not be governed in our ideals, they need a Gadaffi, a Sadam, a Asaad. or it just all reverts to warring factions And now the proxy war has run its course, that is what will happen