There's a big difference - the bases we are closing cannot be used to aid and abet the terrorists and run clandestine ops to insure they come out ahead. These new bases could serve all these purposes...
“the bases we are closing cannot be used to aid and abet the terrorists and run clandestine ops to insure they come out ahead. These new bases could serve all these purposes...”
We didn’t close those bases. They were turned over to the Iraqi government. The Iraqi Army and government did not “aid and abet the terrorists and run clandestine ops to insure they come out ahead. Perhaps you’ve overlooked the thousands of IA troops killed after their bases were overrun?
And what if the new US bases are overrun? Will you also posthumously accuse it’s defenders that they were actually there to ‘aid and abet the terrorists and run clandestine ops to insure they come out ahead? You probably would.