[DoughtyOne]

Folks, if we get into a global conflict, will will need contacts in foreign nations. By bringing our people home, we are severing connections that other nations will utilize in our absence.

Bases we had access to, will be bases they will have access to. Our resupply connections will be impacted negatively. Those nations who follow in behind us, will have those supply stations.

This impacts our movements around the world.

I know folks are sure as they can be that bringing our people all home to their families, is the best idea ever. I’m not convinced.

We have cut our NAVY to half it’s size. We failed to upgrade our air force when the opportunities presented.

We have cut back the size of our armed services. We have closed many bases.

We seemed to cut and run from our allies in Iraq under Obama. We are not getting ready to let the Kurds flap in the wind.

You folks may finally get exactly what you wanted.

The price may be higher than you ever imagined.

[DoughtyOne]

Adventurism, is made to seem like a great idea, when your enemy is retreating. The unthinkable a couple of decades back, will soon be thinkable.

[McGruff]

The move reflects an assessment by the administration that while the Shabab insurgency remains a threat to the Somali government and neighboring countries, it does not pose a direct danger to the U.S

[Flavious_Maximus]

Our country is only a few years from encountering total collapse, and you’re thinking of world domination?

Those foreign bases won’t matter a hill of beans when you and your family are starving, while trying to survive post apocalyptic America.

[plain talk]

All of what you say could well be true based on the current paradigm. There are advantages to forward deployment.

However we need to move to the point where we can remotely launch and break what’s needed. Lower cost precision remote detonation of any place in world with none of our humans in harms way. Humans in total control of the machines and the machines doing our dirty work for us. That’s where this is headed and it certainly won’t take place tommorrow. But we need to be on the forefront of it and start inching in that direction.

[wastedyears]

What I want is for us to not be gallivanting around the world, throwing our weight around where people don’t want us. Why should we be in a backwards s-hole like Somalia? Why should we be in Africa at all?

[Valin]

Well Said.
The thing so many people (apparently) don’t understand is the world is a small place...and getting smaller everyday.