08-19-2004, 12:06 PM
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Wild Rumpus Facilitator
Join Date: Mar 2003
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Posts: 14,167
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Military Shift
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Originally posted by bilmore
Troops are useless in the present Korean situation, except as hostages for NK to threaten.
As to Europe - this was a long-overdue combination of punitive action (via the loss of the spending) and strategic thinking (there's no reason to keep them there - the SU is gone, no one's running tanks from EG into NATO country, and they are way out of position for any currently conceivable conflict.) We kept them there as a sign of solidarity. They spit on us. The people I know who were there tell me that they were treated like crap by the locals. So, in the face of their disdain, and the strategic pointlessness of their presence, why pay to keep it going?
And, "forces the EU to build up troops"? Ain't gonna happen. Not at all. Think "occupation authorities."
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