There is a strong movement to eliminate the original and new 2000 foreign military base such as Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. The abandoned ones are left behind with rusting weaponry, oil slicks, poisonous lead, leaking gas and cause accidents and oil spills. The US has also been using foreign land to dump nuclear and other filthy waste out of the eyes of the public such as warehouse loads of Agent Orange dumped on Vietnam and later surplus in untold amounts in Korea. Nuclear wastes accumulated on these military bases cause cancer and other diseases as America's name is further dragged through the polluted mud. The US doesn't even clean up its closed ugly cesspool messes and leave behind a run-off trail of contaminants and undrinkable water.
The environment of overseas military, army, navy and marine bases has caused combatants their very babies, since handling these toxic weapons the most ghastly deformities, infants stillborn or having no legs or arms, organs outside their tiny bodies and at times with two heads. Chemical, radioactive weaponry also affect all forms of life in the same way. But the media isn't allowed to announce these atrocities, as it was in the G.W. Bush Administration. Would Americans want foreign bases in the United States? Only supremacist suppress and oppress nations since the elites think they have a right to rule the world. President Abraham Lincoln said right is might, but militant warmongers believe might is right.
Pointed out by RAND Corporation and Chalmers Johnson, author of Blowback, the Cost and Consequences of American Empire, there is no reason why US taxpayers must pay $85 billion dollars, with $156 billion in Iraq and Afghanistan a year for maintenance of the installations including school, churches, hospitals, shopping centers and other many needs–in addition to more than 70,000 golf courses abroad, added to cost of domestic ones. US presence abroad circles the world through imperial power that is hurting Americans. The last two presidents have made war economy permanent, even with "lily pad" foreign bases for launching drones and easy access for foreign interference especially in civil wars. The cost of lives is astronomical. The US is paying millions of dollars for foreign infrastructure and can't pay its own maintenance. Funds saved by closing US bases would pay of fthe American debt and educate every youth and pay student loans. There is no proof that US military bases keep the US safe. They are the epitome of disgrace and create terrorism blow back.
Americans are great as is its nation with over 500 Indian nations within one nation, due to its variety of other cultures, as well. The United States under one flag brings happiness and freedom to its citizens while these same amenities are denied other people living around poisonous US military bases where the women are often raped as well as the land.
The war-torn grime of its established corrupt politics that commit out-dated war crimes bloats the corruption of endless aggression This is why there must be gigantic changes for the betterment of all global peoples. Peace economy fueled by alternative energy instead of war economies represent the worst carbon in the world and are the grossest gas guzzlers–war itself!
Helene, World Enlightened News
author of Songbird Angels for Peace (revised)
