I don't understand the world.

The west with all it's wonderful  ideals and patronising "we know best" politics. Ready to rush in and help at a moments notice, if it is bombing the crap out of your country and killing your leader to slapping you on the wrist and telling you not to build naughty bombs or power stations.  

  The west is willing to run stable if not morally dodgy countries and bugger them up, but not go into already shafted countries and help out, maybe attempt to do some good.  Dodgy and corrupt leader,  check, country in a state of crisis, check, inflation out of control, check. Right then we can't fuck this up any worse than it is move along.  Military rulers, check, humanitarian disaster being ignored by the rulers, check, once again nothing we can do here, move along. Despot ruler, check, great infrastructure, check, high levels of education, check, non-christian abrahamic religion, check, oil, check, wahoooooo lets go rip this mother apart, bombs, bombs, gotta have bombs.