Election 2018

[Bob Butler 54]

(11-12-2018, 01:51 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(11-11-2018, 06:33 AM)Bill the Piper Wrote:

(11-10-2018, 10:22 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: Then, because USA invasion of Iraq in 2003 had unleashed the Islamic State, more small-scale intervention was needed in 2014-17. It was done more-or-less correctly.

So where was this Islamic State during the period from 2007 to 2011?

Quote:The USA did the right thing in Libya, but the Libyan people decided to do the wrong things.

"The Lybian people", like every other society, consists of good people and bad people. Because there were no proper democratic institutions, the bad guys could bully the good ones. That's why nation building is necessary in countries that have no democratic tradition of their own.

From 2007 and earlier to 2011, the IS was known as Al Qaeda in Iraq.

Yes, Libya needed some help in nation building, but they spurned it.

Nation building an autocratic state is apt to kill the established autocracy and not have the democratic culture or tradition.  Another autocratic group or a bunch of autocratic groups ends up contesting.  This destabilizes the area.  This is much of why the Middle East is unstable, and why the US has gotten in so much trouble in the region.  With the best of intent, you end up destabilizing.