Now, the truth starts to emerge from some of the veterans..

[SteelCitySouth]

(09-22-2015, 01:51 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Actually it would be a point of relocating them to a more needed region.

But you said something about Israel. 

I don't disagree completely with the idea of a larger US presence in the middle east.  Nothing in my OP indicated that.  The issue is, however, what do you intend to get out of it.  If you are looking for it to provide or promote long term stability and extend US interests in the region beyond the length of time of "occupation", history has not been kind to that thought.  If you are looking to occupy for a very long time to inhibit groups of people from causing issues, yo will find that the cost will create problems for you as well.

The removal of our presence in Germany, Japan and Korea is not where we should be looking to fill this void.  We have over a Million soldiers at home.

I did say something about Israel.