I guess you were against “nation building” in Japan and Germany too eh?
In Japan and Germany we committed the nation to the long haul and we had utterly destroyed the capacities of both before the occupation. The populations were quite demoralized and ready to do the will of the conqueror. We are still in Japan and Germany. We don’t do that any more. We go in, depose governments, re-order things and bug out and everything goes to hell. Korea and Grenada are exceptions in that we are still in Korea and Grenada was not interfered with beyond getting rid of the communists. Reagan wasn’t a “nation builder.”