Nation Building

We all cherish our freedoms in this country, after all it is one of the main reasons that so many people immigrate here, and so it is only natural that we would want to give that experience to everyone else in the world. It makes since, if we have likeminded trading partners and allies it could only benefit us as a country, economically and militarily. The problem is that the United States is bad at nation building; in fact you could say we are downright terrible at it.

After World War II, the European countries where left in ruins and only the United States and The Soviet Union where left as major players and both countries where as opposite as they could be. Since at right war was out of the question each country tried to convert other countries to its cause. The end result was conflict after conflict, from Korea to Vietnam, the skirmish created turmoil for both sides. Even though the United States eventually would win out, this nation building only created new enemies for U.S.

Today the Bush administration is continuing in the long line of failures with Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Sadam Husain was given power, in the form of weapons by the United States to fight the Ayatollah Khomeini, who ironically enough came into power after over taking a corrupt government backed and implement by the US. Now yet again we are in the process of installing a new government to help prevent terrorism in the region, (if you don’t believe that it’s not just for oil), and again ironically enough to stop terrorist that where created by US nation building.

With the Presidential race heating up this is a huge topic on what to do with Iraq. We can’t make the past mistakes, not another Vietnam, Grenada or Haiti. We need our Government to take in these mistakes examine what went wrong and get past it bi-partisan nature, to find a real solution not just for the American people or our troops in Iraq, but for the people of Iraq whose countries we invaded and turned upside down.