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(11-10-2016, 11:43 PM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: I didn't claim the the bases didn't have anything to do with WWII in the past. The Cold War ended approximately a quarter century ago, yet we maintain those bases for their strategic advantages reacting to current and future threats which don't have anything to do with why the bases were originally built. 

Could you clarify that last sentence?  I'm not sure I understand. 

...and hopefully one day the permanent bases we establish in the ME will only be required for launching pads, but just like the bases that where established in Germany their purpose was to deter those that would come in and take over those we defeated.

The last sentence is our mentality. We defeat an enemy, we generally move to protect it from those that would try to take advantage of the region. Just like if we would have kept an permanent and significant presence in Iraq the Bath party would not have been out threat, it would be those that tried to exploit the void.