Guess what...'nation building' is NOT promoting stability anywhere.
The USSR Tried to spread Communism—to build states in their image—it failed. We also tried to make states two party democracies with rights for women—it to is failing. Nations need to find their own way—evolve their own form of rule even if its one we do not like. France is a democracy but nothing like ours or Englands so to Italy.
And, of course, those of us with even a modicum of common sense, understand that it is totally counter-productive. It is an insult to every people who value their ancestors historic struggle to develop cultures that reflect the unique qualities & achievements of their respective people. The passage you quote absolutely demonstrates the functional inability to understand cause and effect that undermines the pontifications of so many of our journalists.
The idea rings very positively with Millenials. Search social media anywhere around the globe, and we’re seen as unnecessary nation builders. We “meddle” in others affairs. I have to agree with Trump. We need to get out of the business of others and act in an advisory role. We’ve spilled enough blood and spent enough money over the last 100 years.
We need to do some nation building at home.
AMERICA is falling apart under the clown leadership we currently have.
Before "nation building" projects began, countries like Egypt, Syria, and even Iraq and Libya were comparatively safe places for a westerner to visit. Egypt may be back to being so if Al Sisi can stay in power, which is in spite of rather than because of support for the "Arab Spring" from these self-styled expert nation builders.
Here’s our new foreign policy as it pertains to invading another country:
We are not trying to establish a democracy. We’re here to break your crap until you are incapable of (doing whatever it was that caused us to invade). If you start doing it again, we’ll be back to break it again. You get to fix it yourself.”
We won the wars in Iraq in weeks. It’s the nation-building that failed and Trump’s 100% right when he says that needs to stop.