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To: combjelly who wrote (751673)	11/7/2013 4:44:30 PM
From: TopCat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577111

"It could have been. But nation building takes a couple of generations. A decade or so won't even get you close." Damn....so now you're an expert on nation building. I'm so impressed.

To: combjelly who wrote (751673)	11/7/2013 5:31:27 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577111

>> But nation building takes a couple of generations. A decade or so won't even get you close. A decade or so got us close. But then we had this nitwit of a president take over who didn't (and doesn't) know shit from Shinola and squandered a lot of what his highly competent predecessor had accomplished. It was always the same problem: The collective American public has a very short memory when it comes to things like 9/11. And the entire point of the Iraq War was based on the concept that freedom is compelling. It brought about the so-called Arab Spring, which was also squandered by an incompetent president who was and still is clueless as to foreign affairs. It is an easy out for you guys. Bush screwed up the economy, Obama inherited a terrible thing. Bush screwed up Iraq, Obama inherited a terrible thing. But what the fuck has Obama done to improve ANYTHING? Nothing. The biggest waste of eight years the country has endured since FDR.