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Originally Posted by theking
To the best of my knowledge we do not have any military bases in any country other than by mutual agreement...between the respective governments...which is not an occupation force.
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Okay. Whatever you say man.
As I said pretty clearly...when you invade and conquer another country and set up a puppet govt. and that govt. makes a "mutual agreement" I don't think that it really is a true "mutual agreement".
Right now in Germany and Japan they make so much money off of our military being there that they probably no longer want us to go.
But what if they did?
What IF the German chancellor was to demand that the U.S. leave Germany.
Do you think we would just pack up and go home?
I don't.
But it doesn't matter...I'm a Libertarian and I DO think we should LEAVE those countries. I'm tired of seeing our govt. spend all this money on a military that is too big and is not being used for defense anymore.
Nobody has invaded the U.S. since the War Of 1812.
We aren't "defending" ourselves. We are trying to rule the world and boss everybody around.
Nothing I say will lead to you thinking that over and maybe changing your thinking on it.
And nothing you are saying sounds any different than the nationalistic propaganda that is used everyday to convince us that it's cool to keep doing what we do to "defend freedom".
So let's just drop it. We are derailing the thread.