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Because it is a bad thing for the project. You're reading into this too much.

• pjc50 6y ago
  Re-occupying North Africa for its natural resources also guarantees the doom of the project in short order, as well as a huge cost of money, lives, CO2, and everything else. "Ensuring stability with force" does not work. Stability can only be ensured with prosperity.
  • GlennS 6y ago
    This seems incorrect, and maybe wishful thinking?. There have been many brutal societies (and colonies, empires and so on) that lasted for centuries. Certainly a lot of military "interventions" in the past couple of decades have been pretty disastrous though. I propose a "you break it you buy it" model. Until such time as Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya have peace and good governance, no more military adventures to spread liberal democracy.
  • waheoo 6y ago
    Ensuring stability with force certainly works at the small scale the project needs. Nobody is talking about re-occupying North Africa. Again, you're reading too much into this. Maybe go back to Portland with that rhetoric?
    • monadic2 6y ago
      Got any sources? You sound like you're poorly educated on the topic.