Cunning Realist, in reference to this:
Ponder it for a moment. We are now in the mosque-rebuilding business in the Middle East, smack-dab in the middle of a civil war [...] We are asking 20-year olds from Tulsa and Des Moines and Gary and Fresno to navigate hundreds of years of religious and ethnic hate and to sacrifice their feet, legs, hands, arms, eyes, and lives in the process. We asked them to remove Saddam and his regime, and they did that. We asked them to guard infrastructure, and they did that. We asked them to rebuild an entire nation’s military from scratch, and they are doing it. We asked them to find WMD’s, and they tried. Now, we’re rebuilding mosques.
If this doesn’t show the blatant absurdity behind nation-building in general & the neo-imperialist foreign policy in particular, I don’t know what does.
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