I understand that freedom isn't free but what does our freedom have to do with occupying other nations?
I hear people say this and I agree but they apply it to our occupation of other nations. Germany isn't a threat I don't know why we are there. The Korean problem was never our business and I have no idea why we have troops protecting South Korea. Poland, Greece, whereever else we have military bases makes no sense and does not apply to our freedom at all. If anything the money we shell out each year to police the world is robbing us of our money, our freedom, and our image across the world. Shovel ready our enemies are our enemies because of our foreign policy. That is why we are attacked by terrorists and why we have enemies. I am not saying these people should be that way to us but they are that way. It is the truth and I know the truth hurts, maybe not as much as jumping on a bicycle with a missing seat but it hurts nonetheless.
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Simple. We are the lone superpower and we make the rules.
2 :
OK, the alternative is to defend America in America. Let's arrange with our enemies to come to your house first.
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nothing
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Look all they have to do is tell us to remove our bases Thailand told us to remove all five of our military bases in 1975 and we did however in a few month Vietnam invaded Cambodia and they beg us to come back The Philippines told us to remove our bases and we did but of course we are back in there
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Shovel Ready: In case you haven't noticed, the enemy is within, and it's never been I-raq or Afghanistan.
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Its outdated from the Cold War. Close all these bases now and let the Koreans pay for their own protection.
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1) Germany is not under occupation. The occupation ended a long time ago and the Government of Germany runs the place. US forces in Germany are there from the days of NATO when the USSR was a threat to our freedom. Today they are being drawn down. There is only a fraction of the troops there that used to be there and I just read in the paper this week that there are plans to reduce them more. 2) Korea is our problem We allowed for the country to be invaded after WWII and we are still under the UN mandate to fight the war. South Korea is one of our biggest trading partners as is Japan. 3) World affairs do apply to our freedom. Isolationism just means the rest of the world gets all the stuff you get to play with like that computer you typed this on. Oil was used to make that computer. I bet there are some parts made in Korea or Japan in that computer. 4) It is much cheaper to prevent a war then to wait for it to spill over into our interests and play catch up. People initially said the same things about WWI and WWII, but it was a matter of time before we got drawn in. 5) We would still be attacked no matter what we do. We are condemned when we do respond to something, and we are condemned when we don't respond... for example Somalia we responded and were condemned and Rwanda we didn't respond and were condemned. The rest of the world does not think with the same US/European mindset you have. They will hold a grudge over you doing something or if you ignore them. I know that hurts but its the truth. +++ Somolia is a great example of what happens when a stabilizing presense just leave. Somolia collapsed, we tried to stabiliez it and were condemened for it. We left, we were condemened again for not helping later. We let all go on its own merry way killing each other, and now we have pirates that are causing international problems in trade. In Mogudishu that day, we actually won that battle too. Sure it didn't go according to plan, but we still won.
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Wars are usually fought over land and freedom. To capture the land you obtain the resources. Fighting for freedom is directly related to oppression. America is not oppressed so this current war has nothing to do with freedom. US occupancy is purely over land/resources. Iraq is in the top 5 as far as oil producers; Afghan is #1 as far as opium producers; others are strategic military locations 75% of which are for our good friends in the state of israel. Most of today's operations are in favor of the state of israel not for america. Remember when US initially "invaded" iraq, oil was supposed to drop, it skyrocketed and remains high today. That was part of the justification to garner support to go into iraq along with finding WMDs to protect us....utter malarkey. Yes tax payers are funding a bogus mission with no long or short term benefit to americans.
