It sure is. Now I'm no lover of Jimmy Carter but who on this board is against a drawdown?
I am, for at least the next 10 years.
We kept 100's of thousands of troops stationed in Germany, Japan, Korea largely because of continuing threat of the USSR or Communist Korea.
We set up defences to protect the Mid East from being overrun by the Soviets to protect our oil supplies. We put bases in Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Turkey and developed Israel. We kept bases in Germany to protect against an invasion through the Fulda Gap.
Iraq and Afganistan are hugely strategic locations. Even if Iraq was not run by Hussein we would eventually have had to establish military bases their in order to fight Iran and Syria and protect our interests in the Mid East.
The decision ot invade Iraq was not simply because we thought Hussein had WMD's. There was a much larger strategic region. Hussein simply justified it, the fool.
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Exactly what I was thinking. Heck, EVERYBODY is in favor of troop withdrawl, the question is, how much, and when?