Entries by James Carafano

Running Away From a ‘Nation-Building’ Mess

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Where America got Afghanistan wrong is “nation-building.” That’s a myth. Nations don’t build nations. Nations rebuild themselves. President Joe Biden, predictably, learned the wrong lesson. The opposite of nation-building is not running away. It is being realistic. After World War II, Japan rebuilt Japan. West Germany rebuilt West Germany. Sure, America helped, but you can’t […]

Number of Illegal Border Crossings Now 6 Times What Obama Team Considered ‘Crisis’

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There is a catastrophic crisis that could add another quarter of a million to the population of illegal aliens in this country in less than a year. According to former officials in the Obama administration, the standard for a border crisis was 1,000 attempted crossings a day. Who was on the team that set that standard? President […]

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