N-Syte on 22 December 2007
it's a strange thing, is it not, that virtually all the countries that host US bases want them there. Would cry foul if we even hinted we were moving out. US global presence has a far more stabilizing affect than you give it credit for. If the US pulled bases from all of those countries, do you think they would be content to leave their own military levels unchanged? It is the US military umbrella that has diffused many of the regional arms races. Those countries benefit from from being able to swing public dollars from guns to butter (which may be encouraging harmful socialistic tendencies, but that is a different story).
