4 - "We should get the small garrison we have there out. ",
However, we have just completed a state of the art, satellite communicating, command and control base to control the military situations in the whole mid-east. If we are to pull out, we should take all this equipment with us.
Move it to the one Middle Eastern state which has been completely loyal to us Bahrain.
Not only pull out, XBob, but do what we did to Wheelus AB in Libya when the madman Qadafi expelled the U.S. Air Force in 1970: mine the runways and demoslish every last structure on every last base in that litter box that tries to pass itself off as a nation.