Who on here would be agreeable for the US to shut down its

military bases world wide and use the money for education and other social services. By the way, who elected the US to police the world.

Bring the troops out of Afghanistan as that is a lost cause, Bin Laden is dead. He must be god to survive on dialysis on the mountains.

And get the troops out of Iraq, but you fucked it up, eh Bush, why you invaded? And they call it a war, stick to reason, it was a fucking invasion!

The G8 is another party to meet and greet!

Nothing will come out of the G8, the G20 will make more of an impact in world politics!

Peace

Goddammit

that other countries are rising up and will have a say.

Fuck them bases, bring home the troops and use the money for educating Americans!

across the world. I say, shut the bases down and use the money for education and social services in the US.

Why does the US need to have so many military bases, bring the soldiers home, do not escalate troops in Afghanistan and do not build military babes in Iraq.

For fuck's sake, the US killed Sadaam, who trying george bush for war crimes?

bases world wide that it is sick. Close the bases down and use the money for education and social services.

I have no idea why the American people are not advocating for this. I ask again, who elected the US to police the world?

we have the technology to watch countries remotely. Why bother sending troops?

them going to Invasion?

It's not like there's a big pot o' money and if you don't use it on one thing it could be used for another. The federal budget in a country of this size is more complex than many of us can even imagine, and the rules for allocating it are arcane. There would be economic impact of vast proportions and a lot of jobs lost.

Of course, I'm all for reducing the Pentagon budget and spending more on education. But it's a process, not a simple, abrupt shifting of the shells in a game.

for another lucractive project. Shut the fucking war machine down and get Education and Social Services back.

No more war, bring the troops home and shut down all the fucking military bases the US thinks it needs to be protected. For fuck sake, the US bombed Grenada! Need, I say more?

Of course money is fungible in a fiat currency regime. It's unlimited, too.

The majority is salaries. I suppose some capital order commitments are in there. ??

Bin Laden is dead. Benazir Bhutto confirmed that fact shortly before her assassination. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnychOXj9Tg Certainly explains why we have shown videos of a purported Bin Laden that were obvious fakes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41UAnkQARFs

time and soldiers like. My advice, the Russians conceded defeat, who would a think America can succedd. Leave the place and stop getting our soldiers killed!

.... ya know. .... easier.

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But we'd have to keep the military employed as military here at home, which would still be a hell of a lot cheaper than what we're doing now. The job market is already strained to (and maybe beyond) the breaking point: Dumping a few hundred thousand more unemployed into it would make it an even worse mess.

Of course if we're going to spend the money anyway, we could always use them for infrastructure improvements in this and other countries. The military has a lot of people trained in things that would be REALLY useful for developing countries. Water purification for starters.

Edited to add: I'm guessing there would be much lower rates of PTSD among people that were coming home saying "Because of me a village had clean drinking water.".

allowing the social safety net to deteriorate and education to decline worse than it already has. There is no justification for this worldwide presence anyway. There was at least some justification when there was an ongoing cold war.

The people do not run the show here, and the people who do won't be closing any bases, directing any aid to the people or fixing any infrastructure in the U.S.

Every other conflict is bullshit in my opinion. Bring em home and close the bases.

They might eliminate all PE teachers, K through middle school.

And yet we have plenty, PLENTY of money, I tell ya, for Iraq and Afghanistan because it's so important that we, um, ... wait, what are we supposed to be doing there again?