The two biggest problems with this decision in my opinion:

1) Doug @13 – we lose the intelligence that goes along with the advanced listening post and real-time upgrades and

2) We stab our allies in the back and degrade any global consensus in favor of the Enlightened West against the harsh dark reality of the autocratic thugs… forcing fence sitters to yield to the intimidation of cold brute force.

A hundred years after T Roosevelt lead
the US onto the world stage as a force

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_White_Fleet)

we have the current Admin walking us off saying: “Walk softly and throw away your stick…”