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(11-10-2016, 05:54 PM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: We maintain those bases for strategic reasons to respond to present day and future threats which have nothing to do with WWII. 

"Power projection platforms" as the Army is fond of calling them. im sure we don't want to continue "nation building," but maintaining a long term military presence similar to Italy, Germany, and Japan for the next 80 years would be strategically advantageous for the same reasons we have bases in Italy, Germany, and Japan. 

Of course they had to do with WWII. We kicked the Nazis out and we didn't want the Soviets to come in. (See comparison of Saddam/ISIS).

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