Wonderful news! US taxpayers no longer footing the bill for military operations in Syria.
Now how about dismantling all 800 other US military installations spread around the world? But if we did that the chickenhawks will have a cow.
Yeah, while I tend libertarian myself, that’s just a bad idea. We do have interests and treaty obligations around the world and to be able to honor our requirements, we need bases. We don’t necessarily need bases in countries that hate us, so I support moving our German bases to Poland, which would dearly love us to be there. And sure, there are some that should be closed because we don’t really need them any more.
But war, direct or otherwise, with China is starting to edge on inevitable and we’re not going to be able to prosecute that war without long established bases. If our ships have to sail all the way back across the Pacific for repairs, we’re going to lose a lot more of them and probably lose.
I say start with Afghanistan, then Turkey, then Pakistan and the Saudis; followed by the European twits. And I didn’t realize how large the Japanese military budget was. Are we still in there?