It's Viet Nam All Over Again...

To all you "bring the troops home," advocates and anti-war types out there (including none of those Proud Pilgrims who are receiving this humble missive, of course), I'd like to provide you with a sobering factoid to shatter your little Liberal persuasions.

Yes, I like long sentences.  Verbiage happens.  You understood it, didn't you?

Anyway, while you've been focusing your attention on Afghanistan, and demanding that Joe O'Biden bring the few remaining troops there home, I'd like to offer up a few other stark statistics about troop deployments around the world today:

     -  Japan:  55,000 

     -  Germany:  35,000

     -  United Kingdom:  10,000

     -  Kuwait:  2,000

     -  Bahrain:  4,000

     -  South Korea:  25,000

     -  Guam:  6,000

     -  Italy:  12,000

     -  Spain:  3,000

Oh yeah, and as of right now, the United States maintains military installations in 153 countries.  That's all but 20 of the Earth's countries.  We don't seem to be short of troops to deploy, now do we?  

Why were you clamoring for the U. S. to bring home its last 2,500 soldiers from Afghanistan, again?  When leaving them there as a "trip wire" against anticipated aggression by the Taliban is the obvious thing to do?  

When you could have just as easily, and perhaps much more intelligently, left them there and removed a few soldiers from any of the above targets I've identified for you?

Either all from one place, or a few from a bunch of different precincts?  

So here's the deal, as they say.  I don't much care whether we should have invaded and occupied Afghanistan, or not.  We did.  That was 20 years and 2,400 invaluable American lives ago.  As Gen. Colin Powell used to say, "You break it, you buy it."  And I like to say, "It is, what it is."  

How about we bring our troops home from SPAIN, where they've been for more than 70 years, if bringing a few soldiers home is your goal?  Unless just belching some anti-war platitudes in front of your fawning sycophants is your objective?  Is Spain in danger of being attacked?

So, in summation, I'd like to put it to you straight and simple: Only an America-hating ideologue would intentionally fight a war for 20 years, and then unilaterally cede hard-fought territory to the enemy.    

Is that what you're doing?  Do you have some vested interest in America going down in flames?  Or are you just a flaming idiot?  

Hmmm?