Where is the Left protesting Obama’s decision to increase our forces in Europe? Who are we defending these rich nations from? This form of global welfare needs to end. Europe must look after itself and provide for it’s own defense. Why must America borrow money from China to defend Europe?
We are adapting that commitment to new realities – the troop decision Mr Stephens refers to being one case in point. After extensive review and broad consultations with allies, President Barack Obama decided to reverse the Bush administration’s decision to withdraw two of the four US combat brigades in Europe and instead decided to retain three, as of 2015. Those brigades will be complemented by new forward deployments of Aegis ships and special operations aircraft, a permanent aviation detachment in Poland, and land-based missile defence systems in Poland and Romania. In the end, with the winding-down of the mission in Afghanistan, there will likely be more US forces in Europe in 2015 than there have been for the past decade. . . . .
At a time when our border is under threat from the chaos in Mexico and Islamic terrorists laundering money in Venezuela, we are still obsessed with Europe. As someone who’s heritage is Latin European (Spain and Italy), I can’t for the life of me understand this. The Europeans are rich enough to defend themselves. Their problem is their internal Islamic populations. The days of the Red Army at teh Fulda Gap are over.
America needs to look after it’s own bord
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