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Originally Posted by JoshGirls Josh
the point however, is that we dont leave japan & germany.
even you can't justify why we are still defending the US from 1941 japan or germany. but find a defense lobbyist selling night-vision binoculars & they will give you quite a story about how our national interest is protected by our troops in okinowa.
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We can justify. (Keep in mind here I'm not agreeing with this, just giving you the reasons why.)
We aren't defending the US from Japan or Germany. We have bases in Japan because we need bases in Asia, mostly because of North Korea but also in the past because of China.
With Germany (Really Europe, being as the US has multiple bases in Europe), it's partially because of our involvement in NATO, as well as we need a forward base in Europe. However, I personally see no reason why we cannot close most of these - do we need three bases in Italy?
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Originally Posted by JoshGirls Josh
i personally agree with the Paul family. that 2 oceans & 2 allies on our borders provides more then ample national security & 80% of our defense spending is needless. one day we read how the sequesters gonna kill the troops. next day the pentagons gonna spend new billions on more missiles sitting in alaska to "protect" us from the north korean child-king.
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But that doesn't provide us with "ample national security". We were attacked on 9/11 and our oceans and borders didn't protect us. At the same time we also need to have the ability to reach out and bitch smack one when required - such as Afghanistan. We have a large military not only to protect our country, but also to have the ability to deploy anywhere quickly... As well as to "project force" in an area.