He should have listened to me when I advocated going in, smashing everything flat, and getting out again.
Nation building is the dumbest thing we've ever tried to do as a Nation. Ranks right up there with election a Socialist President.
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Nation building only works once a nation has been utterly defeated and the will of it’s people to resist completely broken. That did not happen in either Afgan or Iraq. Lots of us knew after the first battle of Fa-lu-ga that the mission was toast.