You make some sense, I admit. However, Clinton’s Bosian war where we shouldn’t have fought in the first place and probably on the wrong side is hardly a good example for keeping troops and nukes in Europe.
At some point Europeans need to toughen up. We’ve protected them too long and they are both soft and ungrateful and it is as much our fault as theirs.
Well, I wasn’t arguing for keeping nukes there, particularly Germany. Those were for the cold war, of course. The last thing that needs to happen is for Islamic terrorists or people like Juncker (or worse) to get their hands on them; they’re ours. Notwithstanding, if France does turn on us with their own nukes, it’d take a bit too long to counter them if we had our nukes out of Europe (presuming under our control while there).
The notion of the EU military is not to be our ally with respect to toughening up, but our enemy. It’s always been the case. So I’m not against them toughening up, but stay under our aegis and don’t allow them to rebel against us. And IINM, their establishing welfare states at our expense and NATO’s expense is a violation of the NATO treaty.