re: #290 austin_blue
At some point,
thathave got got to be weaned off our economic teat. Trying to make tribes act like a country is damn hard.
Tangential story:When they first built the Fightin’ Texas Aggies campus, they didn’t put in any sidewalks. Soon enough, paths showed that showed where people *actually* waked as opposed to where the designers *thought* they might walk. Then they put in the sidewalks.
The point is that we can’t force a different ethos amongst a people who are so very unlike us socially and culturally. We’ve got to let them find their path to modernity, which may be very different from ours. And I certainly see no reason to continue to throw our young men and women into that meatgrinder in the name of “nation building”. We got the bad guy who masterminded the 9-11 attacks.
How much longer should we stay?
PIMF is my friend.