mika2k1 – say what? We are re-igniting a war with Russia how? Our response to their Georgia agression was in line with previous Soviet satellite states and most of NATO. Would you like us to leave NATO as well? Regarding troops coming home, we sure could have used those troops stationed in Germany in the troop rotation in Iraq, and in fact IIRC we did decrease our troop levels by some 15,000 in South Korea. Many Germans and South Koreans did not want us to lower the troop levels in part because of the economic impact their removal would have on the local economy, but that is a poor reason to station them there if it is the only one. I personally do think we need to lower our footprint in Europe and place the troops in areas that better serve our geopolitical security goals. Europe needs to finance its own defense to a resurgent Russia. The reality is that it cannot take on the burden of a increase in defense spending given the socialist state and aging population.