[AnotherUnixGeek]

But, no, we had to nation-build - with tribal savages no less.

There is no way to build Afghanistan into a functional nation without also building Pakistan into a functional nation - Pakistan has undermined our efforts in Afghanistan since Day One, and has done it with our money.

We can't remake the entire world or lift multiple nations out of savagery. Bush was an idiot.

[Little Ray]

Peoples are different.
All of nation building is based on the idea that people want the same things we do, which is patently false and dooms us to failure.