The initial military intervention was then followed up with countless “development” schemes that enriched a few at the expense of the many, and when the cost of this unending war became unpopular with the citizenry “back home” over time–we left the hapless “natives” that included those very women we had been so concerned with “saving,” at the mercy of anarchy and chaos. More

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