These type of "intervention" follows a pattern.
1. First we instigate an uprising by exploiting existing tensions or creating one.
2. Then when the local govt reacts like we expected them to, we cry foul, and say we have to defend helpless civilians from a "brutal and authoritarian" regime.
3. We warn members of that regime's police and military that they'll be guilty of war crimes if they act against the "rebels". This is when you come to see the role the International Criminal Court plays in our efforts at global domination. Key members of the govt military will start getting phone calls to defect. And many will defect.
4. At this point all you'll read in the western press about the local govt are just how bad the regime is. Propaganda all the way.
5. If things are not going according to plan, we rush to the UN for permission to establish a "no fly zone" in the country. We'll get our wish, of course. And that's when cruise missiles start taking our the military infrastructure of the local govt. Dams and other civilian infrastructure are fair game too. Everything goes down hill from there.
That was how it played out in Libya. Syria was close to 5 when Russian stepped in. Assad owes Putin big!
While this is going on, we in the west (the rest of us not involved in the war effort) are busy with our lives. We don't bother if it's our govt doing it to others.
And the beat goes on. Until something happens. But it happened because "they hate our freedom".
But the gods are not to blame.