Too bad our political "leaders" (bush, et. al) severely lacked the will and intelligence to do the right thing.
Destroy (as your montage alludes to), and get out.
Instead, their "brilliance" lead to 2 decades of "nation building" and "exporting democracy" to a land/people that was 100% incompatible. $$$Trillions$$$ wasted and thousands of lives lost/wounded and what do we have to show for their "leadership?"
Nation building. pfffttt
from my home page
I have been advocating for several years a policy I call ‘embaseees’. Embassy + AirBase —> EmBASEeees. We go into a terrorist country, clear out their taliban equivalent, then withdraw to very large Embassies, perhaps 3 of them. Have them big enough to encompass a military airbase where we can use it for decades on end to conduct anti-terrorism operations. As long as the ‘host’ country aint killing Americans then we let them have self-sovereignty. Kind of like how we operated in the Phillipines for decades. We could even have an intermediate zone that we patrol but it would be autonomous. Let them have their taste of freedom. A referendum every 10 years to see how large the boundaries of the intermediate autonomous zone should be.
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