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> Sensible people have always been aware ... Indeed. And yet it seems sensible people are quite impotent whenever there's such trouble, real or imagined, in so

> Sensible people have always been aware ... Indeed. And yet it seems sensible people are quite impotent whenever there's such trouble, real or imagined, in some far-away land that a US Administration feels an uncontrollable urge to send in the Marines first, and try to "nation-build" afterward. Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq -- we just never learn. George Orwell: "Not much is learned from the lessons of history. And that is the greatest of the lessons of history."

zozbot234 5y ago
> try to "nation-build" afterward. This hasn't happened, though. True nation-building has not been seriously attempted since post-WWII Germany and Japan. Cargo-cult efforts to "export" the figments of electoral democracy (as seen in Afghanistan and 2000s Iraq) do not matter. They were always doomed to failure.