“After almost 6 1/2 years, and 4,327 American dead and 31,483 wounded, with a war spiraling downward in Afghanistan, it would be indefensible for the U.S. military — overextended and in need of materiel repair and mental recuperation — to loiter in Iraq to improve the instincts of corrupt elites. If there is a worse use of the U.S. military than ‘nation-building,’ it is adult supervision and behavior modification of other peoples’ politicians.” – George Will
Quote of the Day – Iraq Edition
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Hasn’t the US military been providing adult supervision for Euroweenie elites for the last 60 years?
No… You seem to have overlooked the Cold War and the presence of the Soviet block for about 40 years of that time.
Has that been a waste this whole time?
Since the end of the Cold War mostly yes. Before that, not so much.
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If there is a worse use of the U.S. military than ‘nation-building,’ it is adult supervision and behavior modification of other peoples’ politicians.â€
Yeah, adult supervision is a smarmy throwaway line that obscures the more accurate “responsibly transitioning parties recently engaged in a civil war toward a political process, in order to avert reanimation of civil war, potential regional war, and potential genocide.”
What a tool.
