JoeB131
Diamond Member
We did a decent job of Nation Building in the years following WWII.
We have been utter failures at it ever since.
In WWII, we had nations to rebuild. Germans and Japanese had distinct histories and national identities.
The problem with "Nation Building" in Iraq is that Iraq is a fiction. It was something the British carved out of the corpse of the Ottoman Empire and put a puppet in charge of.
The same could be said of Afghanistan. It's something that they drew up as a buffer zone between the British and Tsarist Empires that neither side really wanted because they didn't have anything.