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Who we protect as a nation should depend on the situation, not simply the countries involved.
I don't believe we should intervene in any foreign conflict unless it meets certain criteria.
1. There is systematic violent violation of human rights by a discrete force which presents an imminent danger to the health and lives of the targeted body to which the state within which these violations take place is unable to contain or is the aggressor.
2. There is an unprovoked clear violation of state sovereignty or an invasion of a peaceful, militarily neutral nation which distinctly lacks the necessary defensive forces to stave off the attack. Even this one carries the possibility of greater caveats.
2. There is an unprovoked clear violation of state sovereignty or an invasion of a peaceful, militarily neutral nation which distinctly lacks the necessary defensive forces to stave off the attack. Even this one carries the possibility of greater caveats.
I cannot think of any other circumstance that I find appropriate for us to intervene militarily. We should not back the wars of "allies" unless they meet the criteria I listed above.