On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 12:07:33 -0800, "John R. Carroll"
wrote:
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That would, however, require the American public
to grow a pair and stop being afraid of their own shadow. That isn't
practical with all of the hype from every possible direction so it will
require that our politicians display a little courage, possibly by falling
on their own swords for the greater good.
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Even here there is no [quasi] logic applied. With the serious
problems of illegal immigration, drugs, and now narco-violence
spilling over our souther borders, why do we have troops
stationed everywhere in the world *EXCEPT* along the southern
border?

There does not need to be any abrupt change, just no more
replacements assigned out of country as the tour of duty ends for
existing personnel.

All new reassignments should be to small military posts along the
southern border to man the new border fences/barriers. Not only
would the US security increase, but very significant balance of
payments costs are avoided as the spending by military personnel
on locally provided food, housing, etc. would be domestic dollar
denominated transactions.


Unka George (George McDuffee)
...............................
The past is a foreign country;
they do things differently there.
L. P. Hartley (1895-1972), British author.
The Go-Between, Prologue (1953).