Nation-building with the US military in control. If the US can truly construct the infrastructure of nations, it can realize itself over and over again in the global theater. That is to say, its values and culture will spread across the globe in dramatic fashion!
What marks the US's contemporary surge toward nation building is the added know-how of getting people from divergent backgrounds to live together peaceably,e.g., Bosnia and Iraq.
But the US nation building has--let's face it--a real goal. It wants a nation friendly that supplies its natural resources to the US and its Allies.
Afghanistan has well-known natural resources; and Haiti has apparently natural gas reserves (just found). The English (in India), the Russians, etc. all have attempted nation building with the same goal in mind: to establish through "occupation" (Chavez is right in this claim, but he doesn't see that powerful nations have been doing this for centuries!) stable governments in third-world countries. The point is, infrastructure and a stable society is what is offered in return; and the world becomes ever safer for democracy. So, these countries benefit (really?) and so does the US!
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