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China already did that a long time ago.

What lead to ISIS was the US pulling out too soon, leaving a huge power gap that the Iraqi government could not fill. Nation building takes decades. Germany and Japan were not rebuilt overnight to become the US' top allies after WWII: they were fully occupied by Allied forces for at least a generation before control was handed back to their respective local governments.

TLDR: Your brain has certain regions active during normal consciousness. Magic mushrooms shut down some of those parts and activates others, so your brain makes new connections to different regions and develops an altered consciousness.