On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Matthew Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 3, 2011 1:43 pm, Eric Wald wrote: >> Can we stop being the world's police force? Would doing so reduce the >> fear and hopelessness that leads to terrorism? Would doing so balance >> the budget? > > Most likely 'no' on the former, and 'it would help' on the latter. > > Now, despite it not helping reduce terrorism much, if any, I am a firm > supporter in > pulling back all of our forces around the world. However, we can't simply do > it all at > once, unless we want to make things much WORSE than they are now. We have to > stabilize > the countries that we've 'helped', like Iraq and Afghanistan. If we don't, > and pull out, > we'll leave a huge mess behind that will result in new terrorist > dictatorships. > > But we should absolutely pull back from most of our deployments, or at least > minimize > them. Why are we still in Japan, for instance? I'm reasonably certain that > war ended > approximately 50 years ago. > > -- > Matthew Walker HAM Call Sign: N7TOX > Kydance Hosting & Consulting, Inc. - http://www.kydance.net/ > PHP, Perl, and Web Development - Linux Server Administration > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ >
I believe Japan wants us there. Russia and China make them feel "uncomfortable." If they didn't want us there, they could kick us out. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
