I do not have a horse in this race. I am the exact opposite of what you have in mind. I simply suggest that instead of being hypocrites or cry babies, you guys maybe choose not sponsor a civil war that ends up displacing millions of people. If you take one step into it someone is going to pull the other leg which is what happened.
I do not think it's bad or evil that people want to protect what they have or protect even the idea of what they used to have. It's just that you need to have some level of intellectual honesty. That's hard, as you can see from your reaction.