Well, hate to break it to you Europe, but those bases were there to defend you in the days of the Cold War, that's over so its time the troops came home (after 60 years). It's now time for the Europeans to start fielding their own military, something a little bigger than the large city police forces you currently field. You want to be taken seriously, start paying for your own defense, we're done. We're doing the heavy lifting in the mid-east, time for you to start defending your own backyard.