What nations should we pull out of and what nations should we stay in? In your opinion?
"What nations should we pull out of and what nations should we stay in? In your opinion?"
Pull out of Iraq once they are able to hold an election and police their own country.
Pull out of Afghanistan once they are able to do the same.
Pull out of Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Arabian peninsula. Keep our military forces stationed in Israel, which shouldn't be too much to ask, given how much military aid we give them annually.
Since I'm sure you'll disagree with the above and insist on being the World's Policeman, then how about withdrawing our 100,000 European troops and re-deploying them in the Arabian nations of necessity instead? Europe surely is in no need of our military presence any longer with the fall of the Warsaw Pact.
Also, there's no need being served by the 47,000 troops in Japan either. We can maintain our Pacific territories by redeploying them across the Pacific into US-held territory instead. Any leftovers can be shipped to Iraq, etc.