That is a significant reversal of the military’s mission at the onset of war, when then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld warned of the "unintended adverse side effects" of long-term nation-building in Afghanistan. "The objective [in Afghanistan] is not to engage in what some call nation-building [where] well-intentioned foreigners arrive on the scene, look at the problems and say let’s fix it" Rumsfeld said in a 2003 address delivered from the deck of the USS Intrepid in New York, knowing an invasion of Iraq was likely and seeking to assuage critics worried about U.S. overreach. Full Article at Stars and Stripes