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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: carranza2 who wrote (221622)2/27/2007 10:17:35 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
The US military isn't equipped to nation-build. That's just a plain fact.

Well developed civil societies can rebuild themselves with economic and civil support, see, e.g., Western Europe and Japan after WWII, Eastern Europe after the fall of the Iron Curtain.

The failure of Iraq is the failure of the Iraqis. We won the war but we need them to win the peace.

Thomas P.M. Barnett has been talking for years about developing a civilian counterpart to the military, which he calls SysAdmin.

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.

If we're going there, we need to do it right. If we have an empire, we may as well get good at it.
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