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To anyone suggesting closing bases around the world, it's in the US interest to keep them open. As a nation heavily reliant on foreign trade, which there is nothing you can do to reduce, as the US lacks many of the resources a modern technological power needs, the US needs to enforce peace. Do you really think we have these bases because we like interfering with other nation's affairs? Having China and Japan not focusing on killing each other is in the US interest. Not having dictators invading their oil rich neighbor in the middle East is in the US interest. Sure, you could argue for reducing US military presence overseas, but eliminating it completely will hurt the US economy, not help it.
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