Perhaps it’s really merely symbolic and anti-climax, but this seems like a big deal to me. At the very least, it suggests we may want to be a little more circumspect about the party line of the Democratic foreign policy establishment - that it’s our charge to “rebuild” weak and failed states - and to recognize that this path to world security would, in fact, involve massive resources allocated around the globe. There might be smarter ways we could be mobilizing our “soft” power, but ultimately, I’m less enthralled with a categorical fixation on failed states.
That said, I have a feeling things are going to get worse in East Africa before they get better.
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