Plainly Insane

Taking Exception: Nation-Building Office Is No Solution

It is strategic overreach, not the lack of a nation-building office, that has sapped our diplomatic corps and military. But if Secretary Rice and Senator Lugar are unwilling to reconsider American interventionism, the office they propose is ill-suited to the task they set out for it. The gulf between the office’s proposed resources and its mission is enormous. Their proposal is akin to taping a band-aid across a severed limb.

[Justin Logan and Christopher Preble/CATO @ SmallWars]