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South Korea and Afghanistan are nothing alike whatsoever with completely different ideologies. We didn't help one side win a civil war and stay there forever. Unless Afghanistan and Iraq take different measures, they will likely keep having the same problems fifty years from now.

I'm not saying they are alike in any respect other than they are both nations we went into and conducted 'nation building'. There are significant differences, but what I'm trying to say is that if you are going into ANY country to 'nation build', it isn't a 10 year thing. No country has ever been successfully occupied and built in less than 50 years. If you aren't steady for at least a full generation, it really isn't nation building at all, its just an invasion and retreat. What we did was go into a country willfully ignorant of what it has historically taken to build a stable ally from the ground up, and instead expected everything to be hunky-dory cause 'we're America and they'll love us.'

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Posted by Mulat

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Posted on 8/4/14 at 9:54 am to cokebottleag

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What we did was go into a country willfully ignorant of what it has historically taken to build a stable ally from the ground up, and instead expected everything to be hunky-dory cause 'we're America and they'll love us.'

AND those of us who were against from the beginning were called traitors, pacifists, cowards - Oh yeah I forgot Liberal, frankly I'll take that tag over the group that killed our soldier, sailors, marines and airmen for nothing more than profit. Same as Vietnam, same same

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