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FORT DIX, N.J. (AP) — Marking what he called a "turning point" for the U.S. military, President Barack Obama on Monday saluted troops returning from Afghanistan and declared the United States is moving past the time for large deployments aimed at nation building.

 

The time of deploying large ground forces with big military footprints to engage in nation building overseas, that's coming to an end," the commander in chief said in a speech to 3,000 at New Jersey's Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, a launching point for deployments to Afghanistan.

 

Going forward our military will be leaner," Obama said. "But as your commander in chief, I'm going to make sure we keep you ready for the range of missions that we ask of you. We are going to keep you the best trained, the best led, the best equipped military in the history of the world because the world will still be calling."

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Nation building was a progressive idea, originally. However, it works only in nations that were completely defeated and/or have a population amenable to being one nation.  Post war Germany and Japan are good examples of the first. South Korea is a good example of the latter.  The other example is the Marshall plan, although it allowed for self determination.  

 

Places like the middle east and much of Africa are rat's nests at best.  Such efforts would be for naught. 

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