They were thinking with their hearts and emotions rather than be rational and calculating. 'For a medium sized country you make the news a lot' should have been a warning sign. There's absolutely nothing honourable about making a lot of noise. The Japanese say the nail that sticks out gets hammered, and indeed we have been hammered![]()
Not long after this they sided with the States and Saudi Arabia only to get snaked big time. None of the money or help they were promised was delivered.