I agree with what you said, Jonna. Except, the U.S. is NO GOOD at nation building. At least not using military force.

I meant building OUR nation

That depends heavily on how POTUS Joe does with these major jobs and benefits bills now in OUR House. If you are in a red state it would be good to call your Rep about now. FWIW, I think the dance is choreographed and the end is already known. Sinema might be aggravating but she's caucuses with Dem's. If she doesn't appease that red, red, state then she won't be caucusing with anyone. Manchin is taking media flack for her and it seems, to me, that it's working. In the end she, and he, will vote yes. I think Sinema hits stop at $2.75T and her state goes wild over how she pawned the Dems. That would be brilliance.

So true! Nation-building is code language or rationalization for imperialism, which the US has been in the business of for most of its existence, following in the footsteps of the British, who taught the practice to our leaders. At least the British learned enough from their mistakes to get out of the practice of imperialism decades ago, but not us..

@TomMcGiverin We're a chip off the old block. England's bastard son but carrying on their Empire none-the-less. In fact, it might have been a very secret agreement to let that happen. At some point the children take over the family business.

Can't do that, (sarcasm) or it would be penalizing the job creators, punishing success, etc...

No shit..

YES. Our torn, tattered Constitution has major problems. And the very structure of our republic has systemic defects. We need to overhaul and improve our method of choosing leaders.

FDR seemed to have done it. Jr41 didn't. Kind of blows a hole in the idea that gQp is the strong on defense party. They couldn't even find their assholes without Democratic help.