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It can project strength without some hypocritical and destructive occupation or invasion, or a half-baked “nation-building” disaster.

And now Trump, one of the most vocal right-wing critics of the US invasion and reconstruction of Iraq, is suggesting a new Middle East nation-building project.

To many Australians though, it is celebrated as a day of nation-building and achievement.

Current President Joe Biden's dose of this cold reality first came during the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, which lowered the curtain on two decades of futile American nation-building and saw the Taliban sweep back into power.

On one side we have New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, voice of the foreign policy establishment stuck in the mud, literally suggesting that the U.S. should try nation-building just one more time in another Middle Eastern country that would much rather we didn’t.