[2ndDivisionVet]

Interesting...

[americanophile]

I understand all the strategic reasons for our presence all over the world..but who hasn’t said to themselves, “why are we over there anyway,” and wondered, while we’re being lectured about our imperialism, why we don’t just pack up and go home. Let X garrison their own country. Then one thinks about all the havoc that would be wrought by the world’s bad actors once the cat was away...can you imagine the carnage?

[AmericanInTokyo]

If we had strangled the regime in Pyongyang through effective sanctions from 2002 to the present (they would be near collapse or coup d'etat by now and this was the course Bush originally and quite correctly took before going Chamberlain on us) instead of having returned to the Clinton/Albright mode and APPEASED them and having breathed new life into them so they could continue their national policy and trajectory of nuke development and missile range modications, we would not have to pour so much into defending Japan from North Korea through US forces in Japan.

Faulty, failed foreign policy has a direct bearing on our having to stay overextended and funnelling so much into overseas military operations to protect from rogue regimes we should have long ago toppled, not "negotiated with".

[DB]

Personally, I think we should get out of Europe and out of South Korea. Both are wealthy and should be forced to take care of themselves and neither appreciate our sacrifice.

In addition I think we should retrieve our navy from places we have little national interest in and redeploy them to the places/routes we do.

The rest of the world needs to step up to the plate and be responsible for themselves instead of taking swings at us for providing the peace at great expense.

[Westlander]

USA - safeguarding the world while it’s own borders are freeways.

[Haddit]

I hear about our men in Iraq being evacuated to Germany all the time. Let it be. Korea hates us, let them take care of themselves. Japan is a big boy now, let them take care of themselves or pay us.
Fuel-cell plants, best to let private enterprise take care of that.
Home Defense. If your excuse for not implementing our laws against illegal aliens is because you don’t have enough money, put the word out and you will be flooded with private donations because nobody wants them here.
Universal Healthcare is just a tax deduction away.

[a_different_conservative]

After reading this I realized how tired I was of protecting Europe, the true Tired Superpower. They are tired of our culture, tired of our freedom, tired of our very existence. To them we exist only to do the military jobs they are too tired to do. I’m beginning to feel that way about Korea and much of the Middle East too.

[SevenofNine]

I got idea how about bring our GIs back from South Korea let South Koreans handle Chia Pet himself that works for me

[Publius6961]

He pledges to pay for them by completely withdrawing the U.S. military from foreign soil.

We could probably accomplish a lot more if we were to eliminate all all aid to foreign countries, particularly muslim ones.

[Cacique]

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