Military Reorganization

Its true, our current system of military bases overseas more reflects a cold war stance than it does the current world reality. We really only need our base in Turkey overseas. A mega-base in say, Florida, would mean only about a 6 hour difference in deployment of troops to the Middle East, for example. In the First Gulf War we were avle to deploy troops straight from Germany, now apparently, we can't do this, thanks to George Jr.'s heavy handed tactics this time around, so what's the point?

Brue also has a good comment. A military base means beaucoup bucks for local economies. Why not have our troops spend their dollars in the US economy versus in some foreign nation? I would bet, too, that we must be paying foreign governments something for the use of the land on which are bases are now situated, so there would be a savings there, as well.