Well, as long as it is symbolic - you can pay for the symbolism with you f'ing dime I'll keep my money and hand the bill over to you. Pray tell - how does a base on Okinawa keep the memories of the dead alive?????? You tell me...did the person who died fighting on Okinawa for the US die for our FREEDOM...or our enslavement to debt? As for RandomCapital: Why do we need a base on Okinawa...when there isn't a place on earth we couldn't hit with MIRVs. -g
You caped that guy with this post......well done I agree 100% You pay for your symbolic empire not me.
Military bases overseas are there to insure multi national corporations profits from siphoned off natural resources of indigenous peoples. Cozy generational relationships with landowners keep profits out of banana republic treasuries. Its why sugar and everything its in doesn't cost enough to build banana republic infrastructure to what it could. If South Africans had shared in the bounty from strategic and precious metals and diamonds those shanty towns would be up scale developements. "Our way of life"!