QBC QBC:
Oh, this is the old....someone else did something dishonorable and reprehensible, so it's okay for me to do it too, defence.........

No. Not at all.
I used to feel exactly the same way you did.
Anymore it's hard to argue that one country can't have a valid national interest in who is running another country.
For instance, one of the most effective ways for me to advance my gun rights is to make sure that gun-banning globalist progressives don't get elected to Parliament in the UK or Canada.
Many pro-gun rights folks in the USA feel the same way and have acted accordingly over the past ten years and the results speak for themselves.
I'm not criticizing so much as pointing out that this is simply how nations behave anymore. Including yours.
Say what you will about the practice, it beats the hell out of assassinations and wars as a means of influencing policy.