Originally Posted by Robbie

What's happening "right now" is all based on us fighting un-declared wars against nations that did not invade us.

And if you think the bases are for "defense", then I again say: Defense against what exactly? Small groups of camel jockeys on suicide missions? We don't need trillions of dollars of military to combat that. It's not the 1950's and they aren't the Soviets with tens of thousands of nuclear warheads aimed at our country.

And yes... it does make a great "staging point". But my thoughts are...we have to stop NEEDING "staging points" to attack other countries. We spend more on our military than the rest of the world combined.

How many times over do we need to be able to blow up the entire planet to protect ourselves from "terrorists"?

And what are we going to do when China won't loan us any more money and our govt. goes completely bankrupt? Are we even gonna be able to afford to fly our troops back home? lol
I know that last sentence sounds facetious..but we are seriously in debt. And we have no moral or legal right to be in other countries with our military.