Why we nation-build

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Conservatives often disagree about wars, but virtually no one likes nation-building. President Donald Trump has so far managed to avoid it in his military interventions.

Trump would surely like to do so again in Iran, but whether he will be successful raises the question of why the United States so often finds itself engaged in nation-building in the first place.

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