Nation Building

Since World War II the United States has almost continually gotten itself involved in military operations that can be seen as nation building experiments vice defense of our homeland and democracy. Media reporting today comes out instantaneously and many Americans find themselves wondering why the US Government is putting our precious resource (our Armed Forces) into harm's way to help build new nations around the world. Today, the fights in Iraq and Afghanistan have been contentious and long, and although the media reporting is constant, most Americans really have no idea what is really going on in that part of the world and why these fights are taking so long. The US Government constantly reports that we have gotten ourselves into these fights to protect our democracy, stop the spread of Communism and the ideals of radical Islam, but the US people can't comprehend those reasons because they truly don't understand the realities that could happen if we don't get involved.