From Army of One to Band of Tweeters

Re:From Army of One to Band of Tweeters by jbob2000 on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @02:11PM (#10541580)

Or you know, quit doing massive military deployments with nebulous goals, requiring people to be stationed abroad for years. Obama has it right; lots of intelligence, then a small, very focused mission to act on the intelligence.

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Re:From Army of One to Band of Tweeters by cryoshon on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @02:22PM (#10541681)

Except that these small missions sprawl when they fail, and never end because they're too small. The goals are still nebulous.

We still have soldiers in Okinawa.

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Re:From Army of One to Band of Tweeters by ZanyProgrammer on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @02:41PM (#10541838)

So you're implying the 1945 invasion of Okinawa was nebulous?

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Re:From Army of One to Band of Tweeters by cryoshon on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @02:48PM (#10541896)

Nah, WW2 era occupations were anything but nebulously defined. Just reminding people that the US never honors its promises when it comes to withdrawal.

EDIT: I'll admit that the first Okinawa comment wasn't entirely thought out.

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Re:From Army of One to Band of Tweeters by linkregister on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @03:10PM (#10542089)

I agree that WW2 era occupations were fairly nebulously-defined. However, the "US never honors its promises when it comes to withdrawal" is a gross mischaracterisation.

The U.S. military base system on Okinawa is a part of a bilateral agreement with the Japanese government. Although unpopular with Okinawans, multiple successive Tokyo governments have approved expansions to the original bases, including one this year. [1]

To my knowledge the only forcibly-held U.S. base is the one in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

[1] http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21674839-okinawa-takes-go...

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Re:From Army of One to Band of Tweeters by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:05PM (#10542491)

I can't go with "never". I can't even go with "usually", unless you've got a study that lists promises of US withdrawl and which promises were kept.

But I can agree that there was, quite recently, a promise of withdrawl from Afghanistan, and even more recently, a "no we won't".

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