Should U.S. Military Be Nation Building?
David Harsanyi, Denver PostIn the 1959 film "The Mouse That Roared," an imaginary European nation called the Duchy of Grand Fenwick declares war on the U.S. "There isn't a more profitable undertaking for any country than to declare war on the United States and to be defeated," explains the nation's military leader.So it goes. The staunchly rational New York Times right-of-center columnist David Brooks asked readers this week how the nation-building reconstruction project in Iraq is working out. Receive news alertsRemarkably well, you'll be pleased to learn.Economically, Iraq is the...