RE: Because it is MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE to fight a war there.
Isn’t the point to SAVE on EXPENSES?
I’m not how you ‘save on expenses’ when you have to fight a war there. We tried pulling our troops out of South Korea in 1949. 364 days later they were back, fighting a war for 4 years, with something like 40,000 deaths. Seems like the SMARTER, and cheaper, move back then would have been to simply keep them there the whole time.