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@Dec '12 c 94 comments V 263 votes

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looncraz endorsed Sharpshooter

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fantasyflygon endorsed Sharpshooter

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Bingo35 endorsed Litdes

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Big_bo

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Hell yeah. You know we're overcommitted overseas when we give free money to other countries on which we borrowed.

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Tripod voted

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oldsolder

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With out a doubt. This country has been at war for more than twenty three years, three wars. Now government is making deep cuts where they should be investing more money and it's costing lives. Our troops are experienced but tired, it's time to bring our troops home and let the rest of the world fix their own problems, especially in countries that refuse to help them selves.

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RoyFloyd

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50,000+ soldiers in Germany another 20,000 in Italy or U.K. What the hell for? The Cold War is long over. 35K in Japan, 30K in Korea so that they can save their national budget for infrastructure, national health care, education and R&D and beat the crap out of us economically. Damn, what patsies we are.

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fraps

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We should remove our troops from every foreign county they are now posted, without exception. We should do it as soon as possible. Then, if a foreign country asked us to post troops there, we should only do it for a significant profit and the individual troops should be covered with generous insurance of all kinds while they are posted. We are not the worlds police. It is time to stop acting as if we were.

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Big_bo

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Hell yeah. You know we're overcommitted overseas when we give free money to other countries on which we borrowed.

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oldsolder

v Yes, no question

With out a doubt. This country has been at war for more than twenty three years, three wars. Now government is making deep cuts where they should be investing more money and it's costing lives. Our troops are experienced but tired, it's time to bring our troops home and let the rest of the world fix their own problems, especially in countries that refuse to help them selves.

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RoyFloyd

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50,000+ soldiers in Germany another 20,000 in Italy or U.K. What the hell for? The Cold War is long over. 35K in Japan, 30K in Korea so that they can save their national budget for infrastructure, national health care, education and R&D and beat the crap out of us economically. Damn, what patsies we are.

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fraps

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We should remove our troops from every foreign county they are now posted, without exception. We should do it as soon as possible. Then, if a foreign country asked us to post troops there, we should only do it for a significant profit and the individual troops should be covered with generous insurance of all kinds while they are posted. We are not the worlds police. It is time to stop acting as if we were.

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treedcat25

v No: America can handle it

We're exhibiting the level of commitment that a sole military superpower would be expected to in any situation. After we leave Afghanistan for good, our situation will change for the better.

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Apr 27

Ryuo

v No: America can handle it

Sure, we can handle it, but only if we have a plan. Let's either get a plan, or stay at home until we get a President with a clue about the rest of the world.

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Slowmo

v Yes, no question

Oh yeah. Way to much messin around in other people's yards. And too little resources committed to taking care of our own country. We've had people here furloughed yet we continue to dump money overseas. How about a freakin break! Stop riding us into the ground so you can add to your freakin "legacy". How about making your legacy be that you fixed OUR money problems instead of trying to fix other's, morons!

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Feb '13

ZombieMedic

v Yes, no question

Bring troops home and reduce the military budget in half or more. American citizens can protect our nation if the politically correct crowd would stay out of the way. No need to involve ourselves overseas either, unless we are directly attacked, then wipe out the enemy, none of this drone plane and political maneuvering.

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Jan '13

Guns_and_Stars

v No: America can handle it

Over committed? No. Committed in the wrong areas? Yes. We have far too many troops in Germany, Japan, South Korea, and the U.K.

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Dec '12

Ranlee

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We are committed militarily and we give more money to foreign governments and peoples than we do our own citizens. If this foolishness would be handled properly our country's debt and our citizens would be taken care of easily if taxes were collected in a honest and responsible way from the rich and poor of this country.

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Dec '12

1adam2

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yes and i think our insane government representatives, should be commited too.

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Dec '12

truthsayer

v Yes, no question

The answer to the question is so obviously yes that no explanation is needed.

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Dec '12

xyz

v Yes, no question

Our troops are spread out so far and so thin that it will be easier to wipe them out. All of our troops should be brought back now.

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Dec '12

WattheTyler

v Yes, no question

We spend billions of dollars giving aid to vile evil countries like Saudi Arabia. We kill hundreds if not thousands of civilians around the world, with illegal drone strikes in Pakistan and people wonder why the world hates us. Bring the troops home. Stop aiding dictators in the middle east for oil. Take all that money we use to make warships and drones and use it to help the people in this country that are suffering.

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soundoff

v Yes, no question

Yes, over committed to people who won't committ to their people or themselves. I see these people as wolves in sheep clothing, who needs to be cut off at the tip of their dancing stings. We feed there poor here, fund them, aid them and shelter them here and there is that not enough??? We got our hands full with our own traitorous government we sure don't have room for no one else's bad government policies!

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Dec '12

RedFloppyShoes

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We spend more time taking care of everyone else and not enough on our country, especially out borders and our sovereign waters surrounding the USA.

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Dec '12

Mose

v Yes, no question

We're not the world's Police force. If we're threatened, go over wipe out the threat and come home. No clean-up or rebuilding.

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Dec '12

dances-weebles

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the u.s. should quit causing foreign wars, and if they do start, stay out of them. bring all the troops home to protect us... not someone else.

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Dec '12

LetsAllBeHappy

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Not a lot I agree with Ron Paul about perhaps 10%. But one thing I really agree with about him- he is an isolationalist. I would love to go back to isolationalism.

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Litdes

v Yes, no question

Can this even be questioned? We have no direct and credible threats, yet we seemingly have conventional military everywhere at a time when we clearly can't pay for it.

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Dec '12

MarkJM

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And because we are overcommitted, billions in taxpayer dollars are being wasted annually. I say we cut those billions doled out in foreign aid and let them hate us for free. I know it's an interesting concept, one of common sense...

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Dec '12

PayThatCEO

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We talk about entitlement programs?!?! There is no bigger U.S. entitlement program that foreign aid. There are only a handful of countries in the world that doesn't get money from us. Russia and China get foreign aid from us!!! And yet we sit and complain that a child in our own country gets a free lunch at school or a family gets food stamps. It's time we stop meddling in the affairs of other countries and stop trying to buy friends.

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Dec '12

Thunderchicken

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I have no doubt that much of the world sees the U. S. as a bunch of meddling a-holes. And sometimes we are. I also have no doubt that we need to be a player on the world's stage. But we don't need to be the director, prop man, lighting...

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Sharpshooter

v No: America can handle it

Until the current cabal finishes their work, we are still the only remaining World Power. You MUST exert influence wherever possible to assure your own stability. Clinton's inaction in Afghanistan and in eliminating the Al Queda threat is a perfect example. Were he to have acted like the Leader of the Free World, the democrats wouldn't have 9-11 and all of it's ramifications to blame on Bush.

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Dec '12

Mercury34

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Do we need to police the world? Do we need to be involved in someone else's war? The reason a lot of countries hate America is because we force ourselves on other countries. Just let other countries handle their own problems. They can do it by themselves!

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Dec '12

twinertia

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Sure is! Like a pat of butter scraped over a loaf of bread. That's what happens when you try policing the world.

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Dec '12

Vance1

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Yes!, We should cut off all oversea's spending. We should be spending and saving that money right here in the USA. We shouldnt be giving money to Camel Jockeys that aim to kill us. Also bring our troops home and place them all on the US/Mexico Border

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Dec '12

Your_Name_Here

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The US can't even handle the US. We have been infiltrated by millions of potential terrorists who just walk across our border whenever they feel like it. We are one of the world's largest markets for illegal drugs for anyone who wants to bring them in. Our government wants to create the world's dumbest students standing in line behind all those countries we criticized for the same just a few years ago. Our country is led by a group of corrupt idiots with the collective IQ of a happy meal that has no idea what a budget is or where money comes from or where it goes. If I had all the "unaccounted for" money that our government lost or can't find or whatever excuse du jour...

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Dec '12

HughAkston

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Were overcommitted with no benefits! In the good old days we'd send our army and navy to some backwater third world country and exploit it for all its natural resources. What do we do today? We have troops in highly developed countries such as Germany and South Korea. Why is the American taxpayer subsidizing the defense of these developed countries? Please don't say it's in the interest of national security. If that fat roly-poly teddy bear goes on vodka and cocaine induced bender this weekend and attacks South Korea, what would be the implications for the United States? Less flatscreen TVs? One of the things I've learned in my life is that I can't be all things to all...

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