On Tue, May 3, 2011 1:43 pm, Eric Wald wrote: > Can we stop being the world's police force? Would doing so reduce the > fear and hopelessness that leads to terrorism? Would doing so balance > the budget?
Most likely 'no' on the former, and 'it would help' on the latter. Now, despite it not helping reduce terrorism much, if any, I am a firm supporter in pulling back all of our forces around the world. However, we can't simply do it all at once, unless we want to make things much WORSE than they are now. We have to stabilize the countries that we've 'helped', like Iraq and Afghanistan. If we don't, and pull out, we'll leave a huge mess behind that will result in new terrorist dictatorships. But we should absolutely pull back from most of our deployments, or at least minimize them. Why are we still in Japan, for instance? I'm reasonably certain that war ended approximately 50 years ago. -- Matthew Walker HAM Call Sign: N7TOX Kydance Hosting & Consulting, Inc. - http://www.kydance.net/ PHP, Perl, and Web Development - Linux Server Administration /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
