Russia plans to add military bases in Nicaragua, Venezuela, other countries

[Judi Lynn]

12. It's embarrassing when someone from this country implies we are the only country

which should be allowed bases outside itself, when we are footing the bill for so many bases all over the world, housing poorly paid soldiers who are now having to start resorting to food stamps all over again, and who get screwed royally over medical treatment, and forced to return to battle duty up to 11 times, time after time, after time ........

As we know already, and have known, since VietNam, because of the appetite of our military/industrial hogs, we have become a nightmare, and a hideous joke around the world. When I went to the U.S. embassy in Fukuoka, Japan, many years ago, we had to go into the place through a crowd of people protesting the U.S., past guards standing holding their guns.

It was truly a solemn moment. They were protesting the presence of US ships with nuclear junk on them in their own harbors. Who the #### would blame them, anyway? Jeez.