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Originally Posted by Marina
TS, respectfully, the rhetoric we use to justify war on terror rings hollow if Bin Laden is dead. If OBL is dead, then we won let's move on. We look naive by continuing to invest billions in re-making countries that play us in order to entrench their own corrupt leaders.
That's not to say we shouldn't assist foreign nations in developing their own indig capacity for representative government, economic growth, and internal security. It's time for a more selective approach to countering the threat of Salafi jihadis and regimes who use them against US interests.
But grand scale nation building is silly, expensive and ineffective. AFG and Iraq will progress in their own way on their own timeline.
We should re-direct some resources to near-term threats like narco terror in Mexico.
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I agree with you there. I think we should have and continue to deal a serious ass-whooping to anyone that attacks us and then leave.
I don't believe in "nation-building" when the "collective intelligence" of the nation we're attempting to build is just above a troop of chimpanzees.
IMO Most ME islamic dictatorships are about 2-5 hundred years behind the US and I personally would like to see them stay there.