Come to think of it, that’s most days.
So Bush announced that we’ve figured out that Russia isn’t going to invade West Germany any more, probably because:
- The Cold War ended 13 years ago.
- West Germany doesn’t even exist any more.
That is, he announced he’s going to move about 70,000 troops from where they are in Europe back to the US. Basically, it costs us a lot of money to have bases in Europe that make less and less sense every year.
So this should be a no-brainer, right? Clinton or Bush Sr. should have done this years ago. Instead, we have these political flacks talking about how its a bad idea. And by political flack, I mean Retired General Wesley Clark.
One of the things that bugs me the most about the Kerry campaign is that they just don’t seem to know how to pick their battles. Why are they arguing about this? All Bush has to say is “Well, none of the people at the Pentagon seem to be worried about Russia invading Germany anytime soon, so it was time to reduce our presence in Europe.” If he does that, or more likely, if his proxy does that, it will just be yet another time I’ve seen the Kerry campaign make an issue of something Bush does that is obviously the right thing.
Plus, to be perfectly honest, its time the EU nations started providing for more of their own defense instead of mooching off us so much. Bush probably can’t say that publicly, but the line about us not being worried about the Soviet Union, since it no longer exists, is just too obvious.
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