What kind of world are we?

Are we going to be a world that allows men like Saddam to rule nations the way men like Saddam rule nations? How can anyone protest what America is doing in Iraq? The world should feel shame for allowing Saddam to rule as long as he did, and those who opposed the war have certainly driven up the death toll on all sides of the conflict. How would this whole war have gone differently if all decent nations had backed America? There would have been far less death. But that would require moral courage, which is something Europe has never had in any abundance. There has been more moral outrage from Europe for the actions of a few soldiers acting mostly on one day in November of 2003 in Abu Ghraib than over the decades of Saddam's murdering. America is right to free Iraq, and the entire rest of the world is wrong.

We should close our bases in Germany. We should move to Eastern Europe, and we should tell our less reliable allies that they are on their own.

We should close our bases in Korea. They don't want us there. In fact, they protest our presence. We are about to withdraw thousands of troops (which has also been protested as many Koreans catering to the needs of American troops will lose their jobs), but a good 20,000 troops will be remaining. South Korea has been getting wealthy at our expense long enough. We are protecting them from a neighbor that is far poorer. Not to mention that America seems to want to take the threat posed by North Korea far more seriously than the South Koreans. They want to appease, fine. They can protect themselves from now on.