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Nation building in another country is similar to building a relationship in another family. Just move in and sort their problems out.
That’s one interpretation. “Nation Building” is also a polite term for Imperialism or Colonialism.
From 1899, Rudyard Kipling, “The White Man’s Burden: The United States and the Philippine Islands”
“Take up the White Man’s burden—
Send forth the best ye breed—
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives’ need;
To wait in heavy harness
On fluttered folk and wild—
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half devil and half child.
Take up the White Man’s burden—
In patience to abide,
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple,
An hundred times made plain.
To seek another’s profit,
And work another’s gain.
Take up the White Man’s burden—
The savage wars of peace—
Fill full the mouth of Famine
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
The end for others sought,
Watch Sloth and heathen Folly
Bring all your hopes to nought….”
Several more stanzas if you want to read this crap
American soldiers practicing the “Water Torture”. They filled the stomachs of Filipino Guerillas with water, then pressed their abdomens to make them puke it back up. Over and over. Disgusted the Spanish.
