Nation building, on the other hand, is unrealistic and, in my opinion, would take decades to accomplish.
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But after visiting the war zone, I have serious questions and reservations about participating in long-term nation building there.
In the ensuing months, I have become more and more convinced that our troop-intensive strategy of nation building is unsustainable.
America, it is time to focus on nation building here at home.
Think an RPG experience with miniatures set in an RTS world, with nation building and cooperative boss encounters as part of the ensemble.
But we mustn't get sucked into nation building or government building because that's something which we've learnt from past history simply doesn't work in Afghanistan.
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The more that nation building in Iraq is in doubt, the more the mission creeps into a doubling of bets in hope of covering those that are lost.
In some ways, this might be a somewhat updated model for nation building in general: Get a working, reliable framework out there, let individuals make their businesses in it.
Bombing other countries and nation building will never work.
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Gates made clear that no matter what Obama decides on immediate troop levels, the United States will remain in Afghanistan to continue efforts to dismantle terrorist organizations and help with economic development and nation building.
The speech evoked the great moments of nation building in the country's history: the First World War battlefield of Gallipoli "when Turks and Kurds fell in battle shoulder to shoulder, " the War of Independence and the First National Assembly.
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After somehow failing to argue competently on behalf of a patently justifiable invasion, and as its more specious arguments were collapsing, the Bush administration then pivoted with breathtaking enthusiasm to nation building, something so Clinton-tinged that it had previously been held in contempt.
The Spanish case shows how difficult it was for a young democracy to deal with terrorist activities perpetrated by the Basque separatist group, ETA. History clearly shows that no country in the process of state formation or nation building escapes violence.
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We've maintained rotations like this in the past - even nation building in South and Central America - where we've kept the mission going by rotating guardsmen on three week cycles, and overlapping them, or rotating them in on a little bit longer cycles.
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Some have suggested that we go back to the tired economics of the past that got us into this mess in the first place, like making budget-busting tax cuts, turning record surpluses into record debts, and squandering assets abroad instead of investing in nation building here at home.
Whichever unpredictable storyline develops in the coming years, it will surely present a challenging task: be it unavoidable war to stop the North Korean nuclear threat, or, more likely, a massive nation building project, following the collapse of the government, to help the North Korean people along the path to a reunified peninsula.
After the overthrow of the Taliban, a form of this mistake was made again by the George W. Bush administration, which had an ideological disdain for nation building and was distracted by the Iraq War, so that in the first years after the fall of the Taliban, only a few thousand U.S. soldiers were stationed in Afghanistan.
It looks like a promotional film for a nation boldly building -- a nation self-assuredly going to work.
And they are largely absent among the people criticizing yet another war and prospective nation-building project in yet another Muslim nation.
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Much of the rest goes to foolish, counterproductive nation-building in countries like Afghanistan and Iraq.
With a weak, corrupt central government with little control, our "population-centric" mini-nation-building is not feasible.
Exactly what is most crucial in the process of nation-building the Bank's experts do not say.
Change is finally turning the page on a decade of war to do some nation-building here at home.
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Such a call for nation-building would have made sense 100 years ago when China was at its knees.
But where is the main deficiency at the nation-building level, the fault from which other structural weaknesses radiate?
Change is turning the page on a decade of war so we can do some nation-building here at home.
Change is turning the page on a decade of war so we can focus on nation-building here at home.
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