eventually we grow it into a capable society and staunch ally and depart. oh and we get to use it as a forward military base in perpetuity but hey it's a small price
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what we have now is a bunch of policy dipshits and politicians with no personal stake pushing forward the whole enterprise because of feelings, electability, whatever
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the whole thing ends up being an accounting trick where we go overseas and kill a million people as an excuse to shunt money to favored contractors
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maybe I just get too attached to history-as-narrative, it's not like any of the other great powers in their twilight were paragons of efficiency or sensibility
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