Why Should We Have Soldiers In All The Places We Have Them?

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I honestly can't some up with a good reason to have our soldiers stationed around the world, in hellholes in the Middle East, and otherwise, in Germany, France, England, Japan, Turkey, and others.

I personally feel all we need are Carrier Battle Groups stationed near all the hotspots in the world, where serious trouble can be addressed in a matter of hours with air power.

There is the all encompassing argument for continuing in Afghanistan or not, and my personal opinion there is that we're not going to purge the taliban from the Earth so we either commit to staying there forever, thousands of our sons and daughters maimed by IED's, RPGs and otherwise, or take another approach.  Like arm the opposition and let them have at it, supporting them with air power seems reasonable.  Afghanistan will never have a centralized government / security force to do the job themselves and Karzai himself often sides with the taliban.  So, wtf are we doing there?

If we're sitting somewhere protecting someone like S. Korea, then they should be paying us, and a bunch of that should go as compensation to the military members and their families who are actively involved.

Iran or country Xyz about to get nuclear weapons.  We don't have people on the ground in Iran nor will we.  We have also never stopped anyone from building nuclear weapons, even with the U.N.'s Nuclear Watchkitty on the case, so what would having people on the ground near Iran do exactly. 

Let Iran get a nuke, or help Israel take out the nuclear sites from the air, or wait until Iran actually uses a nuclear weapon and show them what a nuclear submarine in the are can do to make them regret their actions.  Again, none of this involves people on the ground.

I understand our military is made up of some fantastic people. People willing to go to some hellhole and risk having both legs blown off or death in the course of temporarily saving some civilian(s) from the torture of islamic maniacs.  But why send them.  We can give them much more profitable things to do.

So, I'm with Ron Paul here.  Bring them all back, Make our military healthy and protect America as a focus.

I'm updating this post at random so if it looks different from when you last looked. (you came back twice?!) that is the reason.   Like global climate - Embrace the change! 

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