Come Home, America

"'EVERYONE talks about getting out of Iraq and Afghanistan. But what about Germany and Japan?

The sequester — $85 billion this year in across-the-board budget cuts, about half of which will come from the Pentagon — gives Americans an opportunity to discuss a question we’ve put off too long: Why we are still fighting World War II?

Since 1947, when President Harry S. Truman set forth a policy to stop further Soviet expansion and “support free peoples” who were “resisting subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures,” America has acted as the world’s policeman.

For more than a century, "..................


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/05/opini ... d=all&_r=0

Reducing our presence in Europe would help with the sequestration funding cuts but some of our bases over there have been pretty helpful at times with our Middle East conflicts like naval and air assets in Italy.

In 47 Europe was deep in a recovery hole from 2 world wars. They should prolly start protecting themselves now.

Plus their enemies have greatly reduced their own militaries. Russia's fleet isn't in mothballs, it is rusting.