> But you all followed through with Marshall, and that was perhaps the ideal example that nation building works. I don't know about this. I may call it "natio

> But you all followed through with Marshall, and that was perhaps the ideal example that nation building works. I don't know about this. I may call it "nation re-building" - Europe already had highly developed societies, infrastructure, and institutions. But coming into a less developed country and trying to insert those institutions by force - or even worse replace them - sounds unlikely to work. I wonder if maybe the Americans started actually believing the nation building stuff after saying it over and over for 5 decades...