[voteconstitutionparty]

Barabbas and his friends wanted the Romans to leave.
Herod and his friends wanted the Romans to stay.

Some people want bases more than others.
Some countries want bases more than others.

It depends on how well they are treated, and where their best interests lie.

I'm not questioning that we've spent much more than we've gotten from our foreign bases.

I'm saying each situation should be looked at on an individual basis, and a cost benefit analysis done.

Every situation isn't the same.

[ohioWfan]

And not a bit of that adds up to our being an empire.

Military bases in other countries to protect the world from harm do not an empire make.

And no matter how you twist and turn, or listen to leftist 'thinking,' it doesn't change the basic fact that we have not sought to build empire, but to give freedom.

I disagree with Colin Powell on many political matters, but he once said that the only land that America has sought to own in other countries, was enough to bury our dead, who had given their lives for the sake of others.

In my view, your claim that we have built an empire because of our military is a slap in the face of everything they......and we, as a nation...... stand for.