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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Ilaine who wrote (221632)2/28/2007 2:51:51 AM
From: Elroy   of 281500
 
The US military isn't equipped to nation-build. That's just a plain fact.

That's absolutely correct. It should be a function of the UN. The US military will remove the dictatorial regimes, and the UN nation building team should come in and build the nation.

There is a serious question in my mind as to what happens to us as a nation if we go that route, as it's clearly one more step towards an empire on the scale of the British Empire and the Roman Empire.

When the successful end of an eventual nation building effort is the complete removal of the nation building team, it's nothing like an empire. In an empire you keep some administrator in place, and usually charge a tax. If you leave, there is nothing like an empire about it.
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