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05/18/2004: "Not for Nation Building"


Bob Woodward quoting President Bush (p..237,Bush at War)

"I oppose using the military for nation building. Once the job is done, our forces are not peacekeepers. We ought to put in place a U.N. protection and leave, but if fighting resumes and the Taliban come back from the hills, who has to stablilize the situation?

"Well, the new entity has to have a capacity to defend itself" Colin Powell

"Well, our covert action network will remain" George Tenet


If you devastate the infrastructure of an ethnically fragmented area like Afghanistan (or Iraq), and you do it in a way that alienates the rest of the world, who's going to build the new nation for you?



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