[Dan(9698)]

we do have military bases in foreign countries

We don't own any of them except Gitmo.

We pay outlandish rent for the others.

[ShadowAce]

Thanks for the info!

[BwanaNdege]

Yep, and when asked to leave, we do, leaving the natives looking at a devastated local economy and. when their neighbors start rattling sabers, wondering about the wisdom of running us off.

[beelzepug]

We don’t own Gitmo, either. We have paid a little over $4000 a year in rent since 1934. The Castro government has never cashed one of our checks. They do not recognize the lease as legal.

[AFreeBird]

IIRC, technically we do pay rent on GITMO. But Cuba doesn’t cash the checks.

Or something like that.