The GWOT is the perfect excuse

I caught this news item via Arthur Chrenkoff, who terms it "the news we have been waiting for." The US has announced a redeployment of troops that will reduce our presence in Germany by two-thirds. The rationale is to better position them for the war on terror. It makes a lot a sense to get them out of the now unified Germany.

President George W. Bush in August announced plans to bring home as many as 70,000 members of the U.S. military from Europe and Asia. He said the American redeployment, the largest since the Korean War, would enable the military to respond more quickly to terrorist threats.

The article is not specific where in "Asia" troops will be withdrawn. Could well be Korea, where the threat is more real than Germany. Aurthur feels that some of these troops could be redeployed further east into Poland or Romania, which makes political sense, and perhaps military sense as well. Some of them could well be placed in new bases in Afghanistan. In any case, it's well past time to be out of Germany.