We have been keeping peace and nation building in the West Bank in the last fourty years or so. It’s far from perfect, but the places didn’t go up in flames in the last 20 years or so. We have less options than the US in Afghanistan so we learn through trial and error. Also the EU tends to send experts to try and help (whether they do is a diffferent question, for which I don’t actually know the answer).
The problem tends to be not that we don’t know how to nation- build, but that we don’t want to. When we tried to build an actual Palestinian country in the 90′s it kinda blew up in our face. The Palestinian Authority became a terror nation which we had to weaken a lot in Operation Defensive Shield back in 2002. It remained a weak, unelected government ever since (last elections were back at 2006, when Hamas started taking over). Nobody knows what will happen when the current president will die and it’s A Problem.
In conclusion: Yes, better that the US did but not very good objectively. We muddled through so far, so… fingers crossed?
We have been keeping peace and nation building in the West Bank in the last fourty years or so. It’s far from perfect, but the places didn’t go up in flames in the last 20 years or so. We have less options than the US in Afghanistan so we learn through trial and error. Also the EU tends to send experts to try and help (whether they do is a diffferent question, for which I don’t actually know the answer).
The problem tends to be not that we don’t know how to nation- build, but that we don’t want to. When we tried to build an actual Palestinian country in the 90′s it kinda blew up in our face. The Palestinian Authority became a terror nation which we had to weaken a lot in Operation Defensive Shield back in 2002. It remained a weak, unelected government ever since (last elections were back at 2006, when Hamas started taking over). Nobody knows what will happen when the current president will die and it’s A Problem.
In conclusion: Yes, better that the US did but not very good objectively. We muddled through so far, so… fingers crossed?