claim: "we're not engaged in nation-building" in afghanistan.
author: joe biden
evidence_1: aug 22, 2017 ... but on a deeper level, there was far more continuity than change — not least in  mr. trump's denial that he is engaged in nation-building when he is doing  precisely that. here is president barack obama, on june 22, 2011, announcing  the withdrawal of 33,000 troops from afghanistan: “america, it is time to ...
evidence_2: aug 23, 2017 ... int. engagement. “not nation-building,” but “killing terrorists”: trump's 'new'  strategy for afghanistan. author: kate ... he said the dangers were exacerbated  by the high concentration of extremist groups based in afghanistan and pakistan  and because pakistan and india are nuclear powers. he said the us ...
evidence_3: also contributes to the vexed issue of whether or not the us should engage in ....  but the complex requirements of nation-building were neglected and the ...  nation-building in. afghanistan, jones observes, was 'hamstrung by the us focus  on iraq'. in the early stages of the nation-building project, if it could even be  defined ...
evidence_4: aug 21, 2017 ... ... said we're not nation-building and mentioned the very jacksonian word “ retribution.” on the nation-building piece, no one likes nation-building, but if we  are waging a war where the performance of the indigenous government and  military matters to us, we are inevitably going to engage in nation-building ...
evidence_5: nov 30, 2009 ... the actions were based on the need to protect many countries, including our own , from the domination of an ideology that lacked respect for the moral value of  individuals and the collective value of states. the successful nation-building  experiments in germany and japan, however, did not serve as a ...