70 years after WWII..140,000 troops in Europe/Asia.. Iraq -0 troops

[Kosh]

When the people that knew far better then a C-I-C that had NO military experience told him they should get the
Status of Forces agreement and 15,000 US troops still in Iraq would have NOT had this crisis.
But Obama knew better. Pulled out those troops!

So why do we have those 140,000 troops in Europe/Asia after 70 years?

I'm not understanding why you think that is a problem.

The far left usually does not u8nderstand much beyond their programming..

 

[1776]

Shitstain, there are only about 150,000 in Japan, South Korea and Europe.

Are there any countries in Europe and Asia with no US military presence?

Are there any countries in the Midle East with a US military presence?

actually there's over 300,000 troops stationed in Europe and Asia

aka Military Bases ..

 

[paulitician]

This perpetual war cannot and will not result in perpetual peace. It will only result in perpetual war. It's an outdated and failed concept. And i'm confident Americans will come to realize that one day.

 

[healthmyths]

Are there any countries in Europe and Asia with no US military presence?

Are there any countries in the Midle East with a US military presence?

actually there's over 300,000 troops stationed in Europe and Asia

aka Military Bases ..

Where is YOUR source because I researched didn't GUESS!

This source: U.S. military personnel by country

I then added up the total from 150 countries - 328,548
Europe/Japan 116,260 including bases!

 

[BlindBoo]

Back in the 1940s they understood in order to maintain the peace and help Germany and Japan nevermind their neighbors to rebuild, the US had to keep troops there.

Today we have idiots in charge that don't care about finishing the job and keeping the peace, winning elections is more important. Just look at their idiot supporters on this board....

Actually after Germany surrendered all eyes turned to the east to look at the Red army with great suspicion and apprehension.

The occupation of Iraq was vastly different the the occupation of Germany and Japan.

President Bush simply couldn't get the job done so he punted and agreed to the withdrawal of US forces by the end of 2011. That is the hard cold fact of the matter. The Shiite's in Iraq allied with Iran. Iran was calling the shots when Iraq refused to allow US troops immunity as they knew no US president would allow our troops to be subjected to Iraqi law.

 

[LoneLaugher]

Are there any countries in Europe and Asia with no US military presence?

Are there any countries in the Midle East with a US military presence?

A) please you had only 13 words to spell correctly and even then ignored the red dotted underline on "Midle"??
B) Why ask such a dumb question when all you need do is google: "countries with US military"

and you'll see "the military of the United States is deployed in more than 150 countries around the world, [including Africa and the Middle East] with approximately 160,000 of its active-duty personnel serving outside the United States and its territories and an additional 117,000 deployed in various contingency operations."

United States military deployments - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I'm sorry but I just question people commenting without doing just the minimum of scholarship!

Look at you! The typo patrol! Sweet.

Thanks for answering my obvious questions. Do you think the OP understands why that information is all that is needed to kill his dopey thread?

Not every European and Asian nation hosts our military. And there are nations in the Middle East that do.

It takes a real idiot to think that those questions required research. That is common knowledge shit.

 

[bendog]

Great thread. Sort of sadomasochistic, but lacking in sheer porn.

 

[healthmyths]

Are there any countries in Europe and Asia with no US military presence?

Are there any countries in the Midle East with a US military presence?

A) please you had only 13 words to spell correctly and even then ignored the red dotted underline on "Midle"??
B) Why ask such a dumb question when all you need do is google: "countries with US military"

and you'll see "the military of the United States is deployed in more than 150 countries around the world, [including Africa and the Middle East] with approximately 160,000 of its active-duty personnel serving outside the United States and its territories and an additional 117,000 deployed in various contingency operations."

United States military deployments - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I'm sorry but I just question people commenting without doing just the minimum of scholarship!

Look at you! The typo patrol! Sweet.

Thanks for answering my obvious questions. Do you think the OP understands why that information is all that is needed to kill his dopey thread?

Not every European and Asian nation hosts our military. And there are nations in the Middle East that do.

It takes a real idiot to think that those questions required research. That is common knowledge shit.

Are you that pompous to think YOU f...king know the answers? Did you go to each of the 150 countries and count
the troops dumb f...k! What a perfect example of your plain stupidity!

 

[healthmyths]

Great thread. Sort of sadomasochistic, but lacking in sheer porn.

The only humiliation is where people make guesses, can't spell, and then when confronted with the facts criticize the messenger!
All people like you do is prove YOU have nothing to counter the facts that I presented.
AGAIN I'm just copying and pasting information from sources on the ground. Idiots like you guess proving you are truly dumb!
Save your comments for proving I'm wrong otherwise all you are doing is making yourself feel good which I imagine is done quite often!

 

[NoTeaPartyPleez]

When the people that knew far better then a C-I-C that had NO military experience told him they should get the
Status of Forces agreement and 15,000 US troops still in Iraq would have NOT had this crisis.
But Obama knew better. Pulled out those troops!

So why do we have those 140,000 troops in Europe/Asia after 70 years?

I'm not understanding why you think that is a problem.

Obama abides by an international treaty signed by his predecessor and these jerks bash him.

Why do we have 140,000 troops in other countries after 70 years? Good question. It's not like it's kept the fucking peace, now has it?

 

[NoTeaPartyPleez]

This perpetual war cannot and will not result in perpetual peace. It will only result in perpetual war. It's an outdated and failed concept. And i'm confident Americans will come to realize that one day.

I hope you are right and wish Cheney would retire to his Wyoming ranch where men are men and the sheep are nervous.

 

[Siete]

Are there any countries in Europe and Asia with no US military presence?

Are there any countries in the Midle East with a US military presence?

actually there's over 300,000 troops stationed in Europe and Asia

aka Military Bases ..

Where is YOUR source because I researched didn't GUESS!

This source: U.S. military personnel by country

I then added up the total from 150 countries - 328,548
Europe/Japan 116,260 including bases!

The military of the United States is deployed in more than 150 countries around the world, with approximately 160,000 of its active-duty personnel serving outside the United States and its territories and an additional 117,000 deployed in various contingency operations. US troops are spread across the globe: over 67,000 are stationed in Europe; over 80,000 in East Asia and the Pacific region; over 4,750 in North Africa, the Near East, and South Asia; over 1,800 in the Western Hemisphere; over 300 in Sub-Saharan Africa; and less than 100 in states of the former Soviet Union.[1] Of those in Europe, most of the military personnel are located at installations activated during the Cold War, by which the US government sought to challenge the Soviet Union in the aftermath of World War II.[2]

 

[NYcarbineer]

The OP acts as if we taxpayers having to spend hundreds of billions to defend Europe and Asia for free is a good thing.

 

[NYcarbineer]

How many European and Asian troops are currently in Iraq?

 

[bendog]

How many European and Asian troops are currently in Iraq?

I think the OP demonstrated a logical head up the tootsie and failure to comprehend twentieth century world history. That said, it's a funny thread.

 

[LoneLaugher]

A) please you had only 13 words to spell correctly and even then ignored the red dotted underline on "Midle"??
B) Why ask such a dumb question when all you need do is google: "countries with US military"

and you'll see "the military of the United States is deployed in more than 150 countries around the world, [including Africa and the Middle East] with approximately 160,000 of its active-duty personnel serving outside the United States and its territories and an additional 117,000 deployed in various contingency operations."

United States military deployments - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I'm sorry but I just question people commenting without doing just the minimum of scholarship!

Look at you! The typo patrol! Sweet.

Thanks for answering my obvious questions. Do you think the OP understands why that information is all that is needed to kill his dopey thread?

Not every European and Asian nation hosts our military. And there are nations in the Middle East that do.

It takes a real idiot to think that those questions required research. That is common knowledge shit.

Are you that pompous to think YOU f...king know the answers? Did you go to each of the 150 countries and count
the troops dumb f...k! What a perfect example of your plain stupidity!

Sorry....but I thought everyone knew that there were nations in Europe and Asia that do not host US military personnel. I also thought everyone knew the there are nations in the Middle East that do. It is common knowledge.....if you are not an idiot.

 

[BlindBoo]

Great thread. Sort of sadomasochistic, but lacking in sheer porn.

The only humiliation is where people make guesses, can't spell, and then when confronted with the facts criticize the messenger!
All people like you do is prove YOU have nothing to counter the facts that I presented.
AGAIN I'm just copying and pasting information from sources on the ground. Idiots like you guess proving you are truly dumb!
Save your comments for proving I'm wrong otherwise all you are doing is making yourself feel good which I imagine is done quite often!

So you intend to post some relevant facts at some point, right?

 

[Siete]

you must really have to tweak some XO to be one of the lucky 300 to get shipped off to Sub-Saharan Africa..

 

[NYcarbineer]

Great thread. Sort of sadomasochistic, but lacking in sheer porn.

The only humiliation is where people make guesses, can't spell, and then when confronted with the facts criticize the messenger!
All people like you do is prove YOU have nothing to counter the facts that I presented.
AGAIN I'm just copying and pasting information from sources on the ground. Idiots like you guess proving you are truly dumb!
Save your comments for proving I'm wrong otherwise all you are doing is making yourself feel good which I imagine is done quite often!

Your facts are meaningless. Troops in one country have nothing to do with troops in another.

 

[francoHFW]

EVERYBODY wanted to have a force there but the IRAQIS DUH.