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First, Do No Harm

Nation building vs. globalization.

By David Moberg

In his campaign for president, George W. Bush scoffed at the Clinton administration’s efforts at “nation building” and ostensibly bringing democracy to such war-torn lands as Somalia and Kosovo. But in the weeks after the September 11 attacks, the Bush administration gingerly began to argue that the United States should support efforts to replace the Taliban movement in Afghanistan with a… return to article

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