Why do you get worked up about the troops being in Iraq for years? We are still in Germany, Japan, and Korea. We have not been at war with them but we keep large military bases there. Most of those countries would do anything to keep us there.
I’m not a military expert but I believe we will be in Iraq for years to come for strategic reasons. We need a presence there in order to fight terrorism. Maybe Saddam didn’t have WMD’s (personally I believe he did and moved them) but we know that Iran is in the process of obtaining nukes, we know that Pakistan already has em. Once Iraq settles down it will be just like being stationed in Germany.
My brother is over there in Bagdad, they have Burger King, Cinnabun, KFC, and even a coffee shop similar to Starbucks. I believe my brother and others that have been there when they say, if we leave now it will be a blood bath like we have never seen before.
“Why do you get worked up about the troops being in Iraq for years?”
Because we need not be there.
“We are still in Germany, Japan, and Korea. We have not been at war with them but we keep large military bases there.”
And you believe that this is a “good thing?”
“Most of those countries would do anything to keep us there.”
I believe you. Paying for your OWN defense is quite expensive.
Frankly only people with little to no understanding or appreciation of what our military is all about make these absurd comments and ask these ridiculous questions.
These people don’t even realize that our military bases OFTEN serve as staging errors in times of PEACETIME disasters...so if there’s another devastating earthquake in Japan, Kadena will serve as a platform to airlift supplies and medicine from ALL OVER the world.
If our own naval personnel get sick, they’re aeromedically evacuated to places just like Kadena to get more definitive treatment.
Civilians all over the world are often transported by our military to civilian facilites all over for treatment.
And that’s just a few examples!
These are usally the exact same people that whine about us not coming to the aid of people all over the globe QUICKLY enough when disaster strikes, militarily or civilian.
And the economc excuses are moot. It would be DISASTROUSLY more expensive to pull our bases out from all over the world.
For multiple reaons.