Nation building: Japan, Germany, Western Europe after WWII
No nation building: Yugoslavia / Serbia, Somalia, Libya...
Aborted / unfinished nation building: Afghanistan, Iraq... many formerly French or English colonies in Africa...
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Nothing wrong with nation building as long as you break it into little pieces before putting it back together. That is where we failed in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
the European nations wanted to recover and work with the united states....we did not do nation building we helped those nations recover from war. those other nations Yugoslavia Serbia and Libya had no national identity and was little more then grouping of war lords. I am all for helping but the united States just cant force a group to come together they must decide on there own to do the work needed for having a nation state.