Ironically one of the direct consequences of the West's intervention in Iraq and Syria was the decimation of the Christian communities in those countries from t

Ironically one of the direct consequences of the West's intervention in Iraq and Syria was the decimation of the Christian communities in those countries from the ensuing instability. These are some of the oldest Christian communities in the world and they have survived wars and hostile rule for more than a thousand years, but in a short few years the wars started by the supposedly Christian West were more or less able to wipe them out. Similarly ironic was the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. As the gateway to the outside world, Nagasaki contained the earliest and most significant Christian community in Japan. Again, they have survived persecution for hundreds of years, and was flourishing after Japan opened up to the West, until they were dealt a terrible blow by the bomb (together with the other unfortunate inhabitants of the city). So judging by the consequences of the actions, the West have not been particularly successful in acting in the best interest of Christians in the rest of the world, and protecting Christians have certainly not been a foreign policy priority for the West for a very long time, if ever.