[crghill]

I appreciate your kindly worded response. I will be the first to admit that RP isn’t perfect. Perhaps you are correct. However, if Saudi Arabia had a military base in the US, would that prompt some people to take extreme action against it? I’m a Texan and can tell you if a foreign country had a mil base in Texas I’d get pretty extreme pretty fast. My opinion...bring em home.

[Lazlo in PA]

Maybe I don’t have a solid grasp of your post, but doesn’t your argument dismiss American Exceptionalism? Are we the same as the Saudis? Under what rubric would a foreign power have bases here?

[TigersEye]

I’m a Texan and can tell you if a foreign country had a mil base in Texas I’d get pretty extreme pretty fast.

New Mexico is pretty close to Texas isn't it?

Facts and pictures from the German Air Force Flying Training Center (GAFFTC) at Holloman AFB (Fliegerisches Ausbildungszentrum der Luftwaffe, FlgAusbZLw)

The German Air Force (Luftwaffe) and the "German Air Force Flying Training Center (GAFFTC)" at Holloman AFB

The German Air Force has been training its aircrews in the United States since 1958. This training took place on various bases throughout the states before it was moved to Holloman Air Force Base, NM, in 1992.

There are numerous reasons the German Air Force trains here. The area offers great flying weather and has suitable air space. Other reasons are the proximity of Holloman AFB to the German Air Force Air Defense Center (GAFADC) at Ft. Bliss, TX and the centralizing of German aircrew training for the Tornado at a single location.

Get on over there and whoop some butt, boy!

Oh, wait, there's one right there in Tejas!!!

[CurlyBill]

I see your point, but the Saudi’s don’t object to our being there. My point is that they (the extremists) want a global caliphate with dhimmitude for us non-muslims. It’s not our being over there that ignites them... it’s our not being muslim like them, and the fact that our “American culture” has thrived and seen unprecedented success while they are stuck in the 14th century. We had nobody in Iraq and Afghanistan when we were attacked on 9/11/01. Our presence in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait was limited. I really believe that we would have been hit regardless for the reasons I’ve indicated above.