Let's use the military properly

These are hard times in Ft. Smith , Arkansas, with a couple of big factories, including Whirlpool appliance, moving to Mexico. Typical corporate berhavior of the past few decades, isn't it?

Now we hear that the 188th military base in Ft. Smith is set for closing, as part of the program to reduce military costs, and create a leaner, meaner, smarter, more efficient military in the post Bin Laden world.

I believe that this 188th is a national gaurd unit, although I'm not sure. For purposes here, it doesn't matter.

The point is, why start closing military bases on American soil, when we have over 800 on foreign soil, most or all of which could and should be closed?

Now the U.S. is evidently considering building floating military bases for the high seas. Don't we already have that right now, with our thirteen or fourteen aircraft carriers?

When will we, the American popular masses, assert our power, rise up, and let the military  industrial complex know, once and for all, that we the people are not interested in continuing to be the world's only super power, riding high above all others, policing the world, bankrupting ourselves?

Our corporate masters move manufacturing jobs out of the country, impoverishing us, while buying and paying politicians to maintain a huge global military empire to guarantee safety for American corporate enterprise - overseas.

We would rather defend the United States than govern the world by ourselves.  Overwhelmingly, the American people feel that way; that we ought to return to being a republic, and give up the empire.

More military bases on American soil, instead of less, would be less expensive, and more helpful to the economy. We could use most of the resources we bring home from abroad to protect and defend our own borders! What a novel idea!

Could the military possibly be retooled to participate in infrastructure reconstruction?

The American military could be an engine of economic prosperity, and American security, right here at home.

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