"But... but... they might do something we don't like!"
The level of irrational rationalization for borders enforced by violence through nation state governments while at the SAME TIME being the actual aggressors across someone else's made up imaginary lines never ceases to amaze me.
Our borders are proper ones; those other borders over in the Middle East are just pretend lines in the dirt.
"Hurray for our tribe."
In many ways, we're just hairless chimpanzees, barely down from the trees.