Quote Originally Posted by Suppa Hobbit Mage View Post
You ignorant fuck. How do you think Japan and Germany recovered from WWII? How do you think Korea recovered from the Korean War? Read a fucking history book or AT LEAST just shut the fuck up about things you don't understand. You know how I know you are a faggot who's never left the US? Dumb fucking statements like this.
Going on that point... Japan is one of the most successful examples of nation building. Germany was pretty damn good too. The difference between nation building after WW2, and what we do now and what they did in Vietnam, is that we had complete and utter surrender by the losing nation. We completely annihilated the Axis powers and their will to fight. They didn't have a fucking choice. We don't do that as much anymore because people complain that it is too destructive, even though the resulting insurgencies tend to be more destructive than if we just gave them total war in the first place.