[Recovering_Democrat]

The Pentagon is proposing sharp cuts in U.S. forces in Germany, which for more than half a century has been America's biggest military outpost in Europe. It's a bad idea, particularly at a time when the United States is struggling to rebuild its relations with its NATO allies.

Wrong, NY Slimes. We protected that nation for 50+ years from invasion by a Soviet SuperPower. We spent billions to keep her West free. Let them pay their own bills for a while.

We at least have a right to consider cutting out on these ungrateful jackasses. Maybe some of the newly freed Eastern European nations want some cooperative alliances with America.

Leave it to the Slimes in New York to all of a sudden become concerned abou the military. Hypocrites.

[Let's Roll]

"It's a bad idea, particularly at a time when the United States is struggling to rebuild its relations with its NATO allies."

Aren't the proposed new host nations for American military installations in Eastern Europe also members of NATO?

It isn't even that I disagree with the Slimes position on most things, it has become that they are so bad at promoting their agenda - they could at least leave out the obviously erroneous or illogical.

[ModelBreaker]

Many Germans, remembering Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's scornful "old Europe" put-downs of their country last year, will see these withdrawals, and the accompanying German job losses, as payback for Berlin's diplomatic opposition to the invasion of Iraq. Washington denies that. But the Pentagon does seem to have a growing preference for stationing troops either at home or on the territories of allies ready to embrace President Bush's notions of unilateral preventive war.

. . . and the problem with this would be ?

[vetvetdoug]

The Nery York Slimes left out the fact that when Gore reorganized government during the Clinton Administration, 800,000 military personnel were cut. The NYT was silent then so now during the Bush Administration closing a few bases becomes important to them.

[SAMS]

"The American military hospital at Ramstein Air Base, the largest outside the United States, provides specialized care for battlefield casualties from Iraq and Afghanistan as it did for those from Bosnia, Kosovo and the U.S.S. Cole."

The "Slimes" need to check their facts: 1)Landstuhl is not at Ramstein it is near Ramstein 2) It is not on the list to be closed.