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A comment on Bound to Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Liberal International Order (2019). Parent comment

Re:Bound to Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Liberal Internati... by everybodyknows on Friday January 07, 2022 @10:22AM (#29840133)
> Sensible people have always been aware ...

Indeed. And yet it seems sensible people are quite impotent whenever there's such trouble, real or imagined, in some far-away land that a US Administration feels an uncontrollable urge to send in the Marines first, and try to "nation-build" afterward. Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq -- we just never learn.

George Orwell: "Not much is learned from the lessons of history. And that is the greatest of the lessons of history."

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Re:Bound to Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Liberal Internati... by zozbot234 on Friday January 07, 2022 @10:37AM (#29840330)
> try to "nation-build" afterward.

This hasn't happened, though. True nation-building has not been seriously attempted since post-WWII Germany and Japan. Cargo-cult efforts to "export" the figments of electoral democracy (as seen in Afghanistan and 2000s Iraq) do not matter. They were always doomed to failure.

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