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Originally Posted by Rochard
The problem is the United States has interests in all regions, and a desire to project it's power in all areas of the world. If you are okay with Israel being attacked and the United States not being able to help for two months and not being able to project a large amount of influence in the region for two years, then yes, we can downsize our military.
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this is the sales pitch defense contractors throw at the pols & they fund carte blanche. that worldview is stale & obsolete. we dont need to "project" with our carriers floating around. we project with our economy, by using economic sanctions to persuade iran to negotiate a way out of sanctions. our carrier didnt get them there.
the world is not fragile. germany does not need our troops, & Israel has bought so much arms from us they dont need us & you know it. they didnt need us 40 years ago when they were getting attacked. dont need us today.
