Is the right suddenly for "Nation Building"?

[Bandit]

They harped for years about "Nation Building" when President Clinton was in Office. They seem pretty quiet about that subject now. What is their stance on "Nation Building"? We need to ask any right-winger we can find and get them to give us a definitive answer. I can think of several nations that could use some help in "Nation Building". They don't have massive oil reserves though so I guess they don't count.

[salinen]

1. No. The RW is interested in

"Nation Unbuilding."

[maxsolomon]

2. like deficts, they just don't talk about it.

the crazy aunt in the attic. used to be a "core principle", though, didn't it?

[10376173]

3. Nation Building...

Like Al Franken says it turns out they are into nation building

just not ours...

51st state Iraq
52nd state Mars

[Cannikin]

4. They are interested in global American control.

[tom_paine]

6. They are interested in unchecked hegemonic controlof the Empire and World

Like all Totalitarians, they have no specific beliefs other than that which helps them attain these ends.

[newyawker99]

10. Hi 10376173!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[judge_smales]

5. It depends

If they feel that they can twist the nation into an American puppet (uh, beacon of democracy I mean), then yes, nation building is a good thing. If the country foolishly and stubbornly clings to it's godless, un-American, Commie-loving, liberal, non-Fox news watching ways then no, we'll have no parts of the Clintoon legacy of squandering Americas wealth on heathens and savages.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

7. this is where

the "Everything Changed on 9/11" language emerges as a psuedo-explanation.

[spindoctor]

8. Not so much building. More like...remodeling.

It's a logical consequence of all the popular TV shows like "Bombing Spaces", "While You Were In" and "Monster Kashba".

[trotsky]

9. When it's building oil derricks, yes.

n/t

[Toots]

11. PNAC is manual for nothing else but

The rest of the party is just learning of course they are. They were just misguided a few years ago.

[ComerPerro]

12. Well, its not exactly nation building

When you nation build, you remove a tyrant from power and try to replace him with a better government for the people, modled after how American democracy is ideally supposed to work.

But when BushCo nationbuilds, they remove a tyrant from power, replace him with a handpicked group who will make business-friendly decisions, and destroy the structures and infrastructure so that friends and relatives of the administration can get no-bid reconstruction contracts.