I was reading the wikipedia article on the British Empire last night, and I was amazed at how big it was. Alot of the world from Singapore, Hong Kong, Canada, India, South Africa, Australia etc was touched by it someway 25% of the entire world area and population.
It got me thinking about the similiarities of what we do. We basically handle the foreign defense of Japan, Taiwan, Israel, South Korea, Germany just to name a few and much of the middle east either directly or through aid.
What is the piont of having a huge base in a country? Does it project our power? Is it used to maintain the status quo and if anything arises that is bad for the US we can respond?
I'm trying to understand what the benefit to the USA is of this or what the neconservative rational is, even if I disagree with it. Does it open up more trading partners economically? Certainly England benefited by having all those places to trade with and its obvious we trade alot with these places - Japan, South Korea etc. It would be simple if we went to Iraq and just took ownership of all the oil but we don't do that so I'm trying to understand the point of it all.
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