Patreus is doing it from the bottom up. Opening factories and giving the people what all people want... an opportunity. It took us 11 year just to ratify our own constitution. Why does everyone expect success already?
Those institutions take generations to materialize. The war is incredibly expensive... The war has directly weakened the value of our dollar, forced us into debt with the chinese, and bought us mountains of ill-will.
We don’t have the money to be there for decades. Empire bankrupted the British. It will bankrupt us as well.