[Colonel Kangaroo]

All the military we need is a sufficient nuclear deterrent, a rudimentary missile defense system to protect against North Korea and similar threats, a navy sufficient to give us freedom of the seas and dominance of the open Atlantic and Pacific, and a first class air force.

What we DO NOT need is overseas land bases, power projection or an army beyond what is needed to dominate our home continent and environs. Of course the military industrial complex has succeeded in producing a cowering and illogical fear of non-existent threats and endless crises, so there will be no end to unneeded defense spending.

[lodi90]

What we DO NOT need is overseas land bases, power projection or an army beyond what is needed to dominate our home continent and environs. Of course the military industrial complex has succeeded in producing a cowering and illogical fear of non-existent threats and endless crises, so there will be no end to unneeded defense spending.

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You really want to trust a future Obama POTUS to make a Pro America decisions? Brilliant plan. Chicoms and other predatory nations love armchair isolationist ideas like this.

When you remove the trip wire bases with our troops on them you make military decisions purely political. Removing all our foreign basis would be a disaster guaranteed.