[This article on the website "Reason" overlooks so much it's downright pathetic. Maybe we've learned you can't bomb a country, invade, impose your will on a foreign country, and expect a mini USA to pop up in its place? Maybe we've learned that "nation-building" is another word for colonial-imperial conquest? Maybe we've learned that the ugly head of imperialism is alive and well and ready at just the right excuse to boundlessly steamroll its way to disaster? Maybe we've learned that such activity is mostly about US interests in profit and consolidation of the power that protects that profit? Maybe we've learned that a key component of the American revolution was its self-determination? In other words, maybe we've learned that even the USA can never be good at something that is a radical impossibility, namely, changing the fundamental beliefs and culture of other peoples?
Anybody ever heard of Rome, that big empire from a while back? No, guess not...not all of us, anyway....
The following is a mockery of reason.]
New at Reason: Steve Chapman on the Death of Osama Bin Laden
Here, writes Steve Chapman, is what the world learned in the decade between the 9/11 attacks and the killing of their mastermind: Americans are good at war and not very good at remaking other countries in our image. Osama bin Laden’s error was in …
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