Now and then a bit of sanity creeps into the debate over shutting down the threatening U.S. overseas holdings. "I do not think we should be spending money to have troops in Germany 65 years after World War II. We have a terrible deficit and we have to cut back," said Massachusetts Democratic Congressman Barney Frank. Actually, it's not just German bases that need closing. It's all foreign bases that need to be shuttered. They are not "defensive" but "offensive." Besides, who builds a thousand military bases and doesn't plan to use them? Their construction only emboldens our presidents to blab about "preventive war" as their existence makes such tyrannical aggression feasible. Are U.S. taxpayers listening? #
(Sherwood Ross is a Miami-based public relations consultant for worthy causes who also writes on military and political topics).
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