[Vision2020] Occupation of Germany? (was Saudi Arabia: Free and Fair Elections?)

[Tom Hansen]

I am certain that Europe appreciated our "occupying" of Germany during the
Cold War.  I can guarantee you if we had withdrawn our troops from Germany
during the height of the Cold War (1960's), the Fulda Gap would have been
flooded with inbound Soviet armor.  The only land that I can recall
occupying in Germany were a few barstools at the Gasthof Wildermann in
Nurnberg and a soft warm bed in Zirndorf in the company of . . . (well . . .
that was another time) . . .

 

As far as Cuba is concerned, I can't really say.  I assume that our bases
there (i.e. Guantanamo, etc.) are there primarily as Caribbean "observation
posts".

 

Tom 

 

We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are
dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors....but they all
exist very nicely in the same box. 

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DC:

We have military bases there, but we are not "occupying" Germany, Japan or
Cuba with troops and tanks in their streets.  In South Korea, we have a more
active military presence, actually guarding a border, but this is with the
relatively stable South Korean government's permission.

I am pointing out that we could be militarily "occupying" Iraq for decades
to prevent all hell from breaking loose (as if with us there now all hell is
not breaking loose!).  I doubt that if we leave the security of Iraq to
Iraqis that we will see a democratic system emerge.  If we really withdraw
and leave the country to whatever the Iraqis come up with, we will see a
brutal civil war or another brutal dictatorship.

Ted Moffett

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