Not A Good Week To Be Quoting Pat Buchanan

Perhaps it's me but with the Falkland situation again getting out of control it does not seem like a good time to talk about why we have this big Navy. Our Allies in the UK will show that why in vivid detail soon enough.

Pat quotes the misleading Stat of the USA having 716 U.S. bases in 38 countries and get this U.S. troops are now stationed in 148 countries and 11 territories. My God the USA has troops in GUAM- Horrors.

No doubt the U.S Virgin Islands are protesting American Imperialism as we speak.

Add to this that many of 716 are not bases like we think of bases. Many of these bases are within the same physical plant and some of them include things like the houses where the Head of U.S Forces in Europe stay. I have not looked at the list in some time but I would not be shocked if it included a Golf course of two.

Regardless with a expanding China surface fleet , not everyone want to ignore, along with India getting more nervous as China searches for a port near them , as well as China's adventures in South and Central America I am not sure it is time for massive cuts. Throw what appears to be a more aggressive Russian stance and well there you go.

Pat Buchanan and his supporters seem to always fail to make the connection between American military might and our economic power. Something that Adams and Jefferson learned the hard way rather quickly.