Germany is upset that the US will probably be pulling many of our troups out of Europe. Yahoo news documents this in this link. Link. Are the Germans completely out of touch with reality that they didn't see this coming? With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 the threat changed and frankly I'm not sure why this hasn't happened sooner. I'm not sure how we have justified keeping our troups spread all throughout Europe for the last 10 years. Our relationship with much of Europe (England, Spain, and Italy excepted) has been strained since the start of the Iraq invasion. I don't know if the strain excelerated the announcement of a troop withdrawl, but with the US being snubbed by Germany and France in the War on Terrorism what could they have been expecting? I know from being in the military in Europe that Germany, France, and Spain have put enormous obstacles to our forces stationed there. They are good wartime allies, but not great peacetime friends. I welcome us bringing our troops home. Our military has been hollowed out, our troops are tired of long deployments and the strain of living abroad, and our budget just can't continue to absorb the cost of keeping so many troops overseas.
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