by Xinhua writer Zhao Wencai
BEIJING, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) — “Afghanistan was the ultimate nation building mission … and we had a moral obligation to leave behind something better,” wrote former U.S. President George W. Bush in his memoir, introspecting on the motives for ordering the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.
As the United States pulls out, 20 years of what Washington called “nation building” is cr