PrintAugust 26, 2004
Our German allies
Last week's announcement that the US plans to withdraw 70,000 US troops from overseas locations has drawn the predictable wailing and gnashing of teeth from the left's so—called national security experts. Richard Holbrooke and Wesley Clark, Clinton's architects of the 'home by Christmas' Bosnian adventure, were absolutely apoplectic at the prospect of finally withdrawing troops from Germany 60 years after the end of World War II.
'The timing is especially strange,'' Richard Holbrooke, a Kerry foreign policy adviser, said after Bush's announcement. ``No matter what the official explanation, it would appear that this is related to the fact that U.S. forces are now stretched too thin around the world, especially in Iraq and Afghanistan.''
Of course, Holbrook neglected to gripe about the withdrawal of US troops from the Balkans after nine years of both combat and peacekeeping operations, but heck; what's nine years compared to 60? One would think that wanting to...(Read Full Article)
