700+ mililtary bases =US empire.

Commy

good article.


2,500,000 troops stationed around the globe.



http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=72&ItemID=12181

Commy

I love typos in the title

sapperskunk

I love it, we got our claws dug real deep into the earth.


(insert maniacal laughter here)

Commy

sapperskunk wrote:

I love it, we got our claws dug real deep into the earth.


(insert maniacal laughter here)

well 12 million+ die every year from easily curable diseases or starvation in this empire. then we force them to export their food while they starve, fail to develop the areas...installs brutal dictatorships. There's not much to be proud of, if anything.

sapperskunk

I knew there was something wrong with those numbers.

Here's a by country list.

http://www.kelebekler.com/occ/bas_gb.htm

I lived in Baumholder Germany. A decent sized base, not too big, anyway they count the Quartermaster and the hospital, the airfield and the family housing as seperate bases. That;s dumb, there all connected. So yeah, it's gonna seem large when you look at it like that. Look at all the other repeats in this list too.

Baumholder, Baumholder, US Army
Baumholder Airfield, Baumholder, US Army
Baumholder Fam Hsg, Baumholder, US Army
Baumholder Hospital, Baumholder, US Army
Baumholder Qm Area, Baumholder, US Army

Commy

well, we have 38 large to medium sized bases around the globe, capable of launching bombers and so on...

so did great britain at the height of its empire days, and Rome had 37. apparently that's the magic number...

and with 2,500,000 stationed around the world its fairly obvious what's going on.

sapperskunk

Commy wrote:

well, we have 38 large to medium sized bases around the globe, capable of launching bombers and so on...

so did great britain at the height of its empire days, and Rome had 37. apparently that's the magic number...

and with 2,500,000 stationed around the world its fairly obvious what's going on.

What's going on?

I'm not trying to be a smart ass, fill me in.

jeffbr

Commy wrote:

well, we have 38 large to medium sized bases around the globe, capable of launching bombers and so on...

so did great britain at the height of its empire days, and Rome had 37. apparently that's the magic number...

and with 2,500,000 stationed around the world its fairly obvious what's going on.

Is this thread about numerology? What relevance does the number 37 have. Why is it "magic"?

Commy

sapperskunk wrote:

What's going on?

I'm not trying to be a smart ass, fill me in.

I have no idea really....

sapperskunk

Commy wrote:

I have no idea really....

Ha ha LOL.

gue_barium

sapperskunk wrote:

Ha ha LOL.

Its archaicism, it is 'might is right', it is 'we will do what we do because that's the way it has always been done', it is a bible and a rifle and the opportunistic moneyman, it is property and wealth, it is influence in one muscular dimension, it is narcissism without a looking glass, it is sickness, it is the disconnected, taking no time to stand on the ground. It is a race that is never run.

gue_barium

gue_barium wrote:

Its archaicism, it is 'might is right', it is 'we will do what we do because that's the way it has always been done', it is a bible and a rifle and the opportunistic moneyman, it is property and wealth, it is influence in one muscular dimension, it is narcissism without a looking glass, it is sickness, it is the disconnected, taking no time to stand on the ground. It is a race that is never run.

It is American cowardice, and it's proud history.

scot88

gue_barium wrote:

It is American cowardice, and it's proud history.

who the hell quotes themself? i mean seriously. has this ever been done before?


i'd personally go for the edit button, but some call me old fashoned.

gue_barium

scot88 wrote:

who the hell quotes themself? i mean seriously. has this ever been done before?


i'd personally go for the edit button, but some call me old fashoned.

Actually, I'm going for the ignore button.

Troll, folks.

The Illinoisemakers

scot88 wrote:

who the hell quotes themself? i mean seriously. has this ever been done before?


i'd personally go for the edit button, but some call me old fashoned.

This is nothing new the guy does it all the time. I always have a good laugh.

PaperPlates

any statistics on how many of these countries are glad or relieved to have our troops there versus how many of these countries resent our presence?

Many of those bases and soldiers are there for peace keeping, not aggresive muscle flexing.

And from the soldiers I've spoken too, many of those areas welcome our soldiers presence.

But I digress, continue accusing and bashing the US, we can take it.

TheVoiceInside

PaperPlates wrote:

any statistics on how many of these countries are glad or relieved to have our troops there versus how many of these countries resent our presence?

Many of those bases and soldiers are there for peace keeping, not aggresive muscle flexing.

And from the soldiers I've spoken too, many of those areas welcome our soldiers presence.

But I digress, continue accusing and bashing the US, we can take it.

Please dont leave us! We wouldnt know what to do without your guidence and superior knowledge! Please o please dont leave us. help us from our selves. I beg you!

by the way that peace keeping mission in Irak is going really well. keep up the good work!

chopitdown

PaperPlates wrote:

any statistics on how many of these countries are glad or relieved to have our troops there versus how many of these countries resent our presence?

Many of those bases and soldiers are there for peace keeping, not aggresive muscle flexing.

And from the soldiers I've spoken too, many of those areas welcome our soldiers presence.

But I digress, continue accusing and bashing the US, we can take it.

i'd say most of those countries are glad we are there for one reason or another...a majority of them ALLOW us to be there...don't they?

NCfan

TheVoiceInside wrote:

Please dont leave us! We wouldnt know what to do without your guidence and superior knowledge! Please o please dont leave us. help us from our selves. I beg you!

by the way that peace keeping mission in Irak is going really well. keep up the good work!

Wow, that's just awesome man. Would you like us to leave so the Sunnis and Shiites can just rachet up the slaughter and genocide un-impeded?

my2hands

so instead of bickering back and forth about how many bases there are and what i sam empire. let me ask this.

how would this country feel about foreign military bases on our soil? i know i wouldnt like it. what is china had a base in mexico, canada, and the dominican republic that could launch attacks on our soil within minutes?

not as easy to dismiss now is it?

sapperskunk

TheVoiceInside wrote:

Please dont leave us! We wouldnt know what to do without your guidence and superior knowledge! Please o please dont leave us. help us from our selves. I beg you!

by the way that peace keeping mission in Irak is going really well. keep up the good work!

Puerto Rico. That's cute.