[CremeSaver]

Please believe that Americans would like nothing better than to remove themselves from your country. You are, as you mentioned, quite capable of taking care of yourselves. This also costs us millions of dollars every year. Money better spent here improving our military defenses and capabilities. A total pullout is long overdue.

I think the same about South Korea, Japan (we are leaving there much too slowly also), and everywhere else where we maintain bases. It is time for American troops to take care of Americans, and allow the rest of the world to do the same. I say this with an eye to practicality, reality and with no animosity.

It is time for the U.S. to pull back from the world. We are much too involved. I do have a deep isolationist streak.

[Michael81Dus]

But don´t exaggerate, America! Isolationism is not the answer. So, maintaining two dozens of thousands soldiers in Germany for supply and air transport tasks is a good idea and keeps the good relations between our countries on a high level.

[Michael81Dus]

I just heard that President Bush has invited the Chancellor to visit him on his ranch in Crawford, TX. If this honor (only Berlusconi, Blair and very few close allies have been invited there) is not a sign that the "renewed relations" between Germany and the US ARE NOT just "hot air", I really don´t know.