Entangling Alliances?

[LastManOut]

The US has almost 1/2 million troops stationed outside of the country. That's about the size of the population of the Lehigh Valley.

Asia:

• Kyrgyzstan..........1,000
• Diego Garcia..........240+
• Singapore..............116
• South Korea......27,114
• Thailand.................114

Pacific

• Japan................50,000
• Philippines..............111
• Australia.................711
• Guam...................2,828
• Hawaii...............35,874

SW Asia/Middle East

• Iraq.................168,000
• Egypt.....................425
• Kuwait...............16,500
• Saudi Arabia...........274
• Afghanistan.......24,800
• United Arab Emirates..87+
• Qatar......................512
• Bahrain................1,389

Europe

• Greenland...............138
• United Kingdom..10,152
• Germany.............58,894
• Portugal...................865
• Spain....................1,410
• Belgium.................1,379
• Netherlands.............562
• Italy....................10,216+
• Bosnia......................207
• Kosovo..................1,395
• Czech Republic.......soon to be manned
• Poland.....................200+
• Turkey..................1,668
• Romania...............<900
• Bulgaria.............<2,500
• Greece....................354

Africa

• Djibouti................2,038
• Other Africa............300+

North America

• Canada..................143
• Alaska...............19,957
• Continental US.. 876,378

Latin America/ Caribbean

• Honduras...............412
• Cuba......................903
• SOUTHCOM.........5,000
• Columbia...............124+
• Puerto Rico............144
• Afloat.............115,800+

Consider the cost from your paycheck and your children's children's children future earnings.

[archie19]

Thought Hawaii was in country?
Sorry, when people call me a smarta$$, it's the only time my name and the word smart appear in the same sentance.

[lexington86]

I already posted over on the Foreign Policy thread, but it's worth submitting here too:

"Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto."
~Thomas Jefferson