The Democrats' withdrawal plans from Iraq aren't just short-sighted, but also ignorant of history:
In recent years, South Korea has strengthened itself to the point that the United States cut its forces to "only" 37,500 military personnel.
We still have 69,000 troops in Germany, 62 years after V-E Day. We still have 47,000 troops in Japan and another 12,000 in Italy.
The U.S. military has more than 165,000 troops stationed in those four nations decades after their wars ended (technically, the Korean War is in a 53-year cease-fire).
That is 20,000 more troops than we now have in Iraq.
What's more, the conflicts that preceded the stationing of troops in those four countries cost many, many more lives than the approximately 3400 that have, sadly, been lost in the Iraq conflict.
2007-05-04
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