Proposal. Remove U.S. Military Members.

[SlowwHand]

From any country that does not support the U.S. position.
Save me time, learned ones.
How many members are currently stationed overseas, making their presense felt?
In places such as Germany and Japan?
Remove them.
See how the former host country feel then.

[Jaakko]

Methinks you have an overinflated sense of your importance, at least militarily.

[DinoDoc]

Is castration really the way to go?

[GePap]

Of course sloww, remove US forces and deny the US the critical bases which make up one of the most important foundations of the US ability to deploy anywhere in the world. JUST BRILLIANT!

Next, we should burn all our ships..see how them barbarians like it!

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Jaakko
Methinks you have an overinflated sense of your importance, at least militarily.

He's Texan, he can't help it.

[Jaakko]

@ GePap!

[Sava]

DonT meSS with TeXAS!

nah seriously... it's a two way street. You can't blackmail the countries that rely on you just because they don't like your politics and uni-lateral actions. It's on you (being the US) to convince your friends to help you. If none of your friends think going to war with Iraq is right, then you've got to ask yourself... Is it right?

And so because you're pissed off your friends don't conform to your will, you're going to alienate them?

[SlowwHand]

Originally posted by Jaakko
Methinks you have an overinflated sense of your importance, at least militarily.

Methinks you have a less than firm grip on reality.

I said, GePap, those that don't support.
It's reasonable to assume that some would have a change of heart, were they left on their own.
And think about it. We put our military there, they put their money into other things.
Forget that.

[Lancer]

Sloww, very good point. The best answer can always be found in history. The Philippines booted us out (w/ the help of a volcano) and soon after got into a dispute over the oil rich Spratly islands with China. Well, the Philippines has an air force that consists of a couple of F-5's that are so old the pilots are under instruction not to turn too fast! The president of the Philippines (Arroyo) , is now bending over backwards to please Bush, and fighting a nasty little war against moslem extremists in the south as part of the war on terror, to buddy up to him. All this is being done no doubt in the hope that the US boots the Chinese outa the Spratly chain, which has no residents but has always been Philippine. The legalisms are murky, the Chinese don't care, and the Philippines needs a US carrier battle group, which has always been stationed in Subic bay, until they booted them.

[Jaakko]

Who's gonna invade them Sloww?

Come one, just admit that you're wrong.

[SlowwHand]

Well, it won't be the witless Finns.

[Jaakko]

Wow ain't that a rebuttal. Why did you make this thread if you have absolutely no idea how to support your argument?

[Comrade Tribune]

Re: Proposal. Remove U.S. Military Members.

Originally posted by SlowwHand
See how the former host country feel then.

I would feel much better with fewer of them around. Not that Austria has any American troops, God forbid, but if those in the neighbouring countries got lost, it would be a bonus.

SlowHand, I officially second your motion. Where must I sign?

[Ozz]

Re: Proposal. Remove U.S. Military Members.

Originally posted by SlowwHand See how the former host country feel then.

Fasinated and revolted at the same time.

Like a crowd at the circus watching "Bushly the Brainless Boy" mutalate himself.

Goodbye Norad, Goodbye DEW-line.

[Lancer]

Who traditionally invades european countries? Who invaded South Korea in the past?