Regime change inaction can carry greater dangers than intervention.

Evidence

The overthrow of a regime must inevitably raise questions, concerning first what will follow, and then what impact this will have in neighboring countries. A regime change may well be dangerous, but sometimes the dangers of inaction are greater than those of action. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1801

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Non-interventionist governments were forced into greater intervention — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1030
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Non-interventionist governments were forced into greater intervention — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1030