Democrats love to talk about exit strategies as if they are some elusive mystical goal at the end of a knight's quest. However, a look through our history shows that we have never been good at exiting, once our military has become entrenched someplace.
Example number one is the Philippines. We obtained it in the Spanish American War in 1898 and 1899 and still have approximately 1000 troops there. We have between 50,000 and 70,000 troops in Germany and World War II has been over for almost 60 years and the Cold War has been over for ten years. We have 48,000 military personnel in Japan. Yep, World War II again. The Korean War has been in ceasefire mode for about 50 years and yet we have 37,000 troops in South Korea. Additionally, we have about 7000 troops in the Balkans and I have not mentioned the troops stationed in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
Yet, George W. Bush is called imperialist. My God, leftists, do you even have a clue how stupid you sound? We spent the entire 20th Century putting our troops all over the world and George W. Bush had nothing to do with that.
I will agree, though, it may be time for an exit strategy, a worldwide exit strategy. We certainly do not want to appear to be imperialist, now do we?
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AMEN!
An exit strategy for Iraq and Afghanistan I support, however, I do NOT support a "worldwide" exit strategy. We've tried "isolationism" before - and each time it failed. The world is becoming "smaller" every day, and terrorists have GLOBAL reach now. For us to pull back would be tantamount to a long, slow political and economic suicide for the U.S.
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