The Hamas deal drags US into Gaza nation-building

(JNS) — On Oct. 7, 2001, the United States began an ill-fated campaign to “nation-build” Afghanistan.

Now, 24 years after that anniversary and two years after the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas, we may be on the cusp of an even worse nation-building program in Gaza that seems to have learned absolutely nothing from the disastrous nation-building operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Right down to resurrecting former U.K. premiere Tony Blair to head it.

Nation-building in Afghanistan and Iraq failed for three reasons:

1. The Bush administration believed that the problem in Afghanistan, Iraq and other Mu...