The Lie of Nation Building

Created
Mon, 13/09/2021 - 04:00
Updated
Mon, 13/09/2021 - 04:00

The great question of America’s twenty-year war in Afghanistan was not whether the Afghans were fit for democracy. It was whether democratic values were strong enough in the US to be projected onto a traumatized society seven thousand miles away. Those values include the accountability of the people in power, the consistent and universal application […]

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