Biden’s claim that nation-building in Afghanistan ‘never made any sense to me’ August 23, 2021 More than 3 years ago Summary (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images) ...

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Meanwhile, for some conservatives, nation-building reeks of big-government social engineering. If Washington can’t fix problems in the United States, how can it solve Afghanistan’s woes?

Along the way, the state-of-the-art building, plopped in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, nearly doubled in cost and became a running joke among Marines.

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Nation-building is a term created by people living off Pentagon contracts. It is one of those queasy political expressions with no hard meaning yet its use raises few eyebrows. The term sounds as ...

In viewing nation-building as a top-down,“state-first” process, US policymakers were following a venerable tradition in political science.

"It's actually the best building I have ever seen in Afghanistan. It's better than my current headquarters — it's better than the Pentagon." "It's just useless, you're saying," Robert says.