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2018-06-14 China-Japan-Koreas

I’d love to get US military out of South Korea: Trump

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Posted by Fred 2018-06-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top
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#1 Hooray! Bring the troops gone, close the bases. Peace dividend!

After that, we get started on closing the bases in Africa and Europe. No longer needed and we are flat broke paying for the security of other countries' borders. Use the money saved to secure our own border.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2018-06-14 01:10|| 2018-06-14 01:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Herb takes a beating around here for his GTFO attitude about many colorful places around the globe. I'd like to take this opportunity to share in his beating. Bullets fly the same everywhere. Dirt is pretty much the same everywhere. Uphill is, well, gravitationally, pretty much a known problem. Contact with the populace is fairly straightforward: The ones who do not run immediately need to be shot.
You don't need lots of guys garrisoned overseas to learn those things. Those who have a taste for frauleins or mama-sans should get on the mil attache track or go get on their own dime.
Lets protect our own borders and get Prompt Global Strike down to the physically constrained 18-20 minutes.

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-06-14 05:53|| 2018-06-14 05:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Please add me to the GTFO beating list. Of course an aggressive GTFO strategy will put a great many 'regime change' mechnanics in McLean, VA and Foggy Bottom out of work...or redirected to their fok'n primary focus of intelligence collection and actual diplomacy (as opposed to global shi* disturbing).

Posted by Besoeker 2018-06-14 09:09|| 2018-06-14 09:09|| Front Page Top

#4 I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same.

Many have taken this oath. Unfortunately, during the last and recent previous administrations, the threat has been greater domestically than foreign.

Posted by JohnQC 2018-06-14 10:56|| 2018-06-14 10:56|| Front Page Top

#5 I understand the sentiment, truly. But President Obama adopted withdrawal in Iraq and then Afghanistan, with interesting results that have been felt far beyond Iraqi and Afghan borders. Perhaps what is needed is a clear and actionable definition of victory in each area of operation, followed immediately by an overwhelming execution of the steps needed to achieve that victory.

Looking at the current situation in Iraq and Syria with regard to ISIS, it appears that is President Trump’s approach, though I’d be happier if he took the situation of the Kurds more seriously.

Posted by trailing wife 2018-06-14 11:19|| 2018-06-14 11:19|| Front Page Top

#6 That's because we've adopted the concept of a 'kinder gentler' war. Notice that when we bombed the **** out of two belligerent powers and the population felt it, they've never gotten around to re-militarizing again or had the stomach to do so. To quote Gen.Sherman - "War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it; the crueler it is, the sooner it will be over."

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-06-14 11:30|| 2018-06-14 11:30|| Front Page Top

#7 Count me in the GTFO Camp. Edward N. Luttwak (in his Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire) made an observation:
The Roman Empire, as empires do, got sucked into occupying everything because it might be used to attack land behind them. The Roman Republic used a doctrine of "paranoid preemptive self-defense" establishing a ring of ~~allies~~ client states and marching out in massive, "destroy everything and then go home" campaigns.
Wars are expensive, but defending every bit of useless dirt near your borders will bleed you dry.

Posted by magpie 2018-06-14 12:22|| 2018-06-14 12:22|| Front Page Top

#8 'Kinder, gentler' war? Bullfeathers!

Bring back the Rockeye and napalm.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2018-06-14 15:03|| 2018-06-14 15:03|| Front Page Top

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