http://afa.org/magazine/aug2006/0806presence.html

AIR FORCE Magazine
Journal of the Air Force Association

August 2006, Vol. 89, No. 8

. . . The global basing review that began in 2004 was described by then-Pentagon policy chief Douglas J. Feith as “the most thorough restructuring of US military forces overseas since the major elements ... were set in 1953.”

The Pentagon report states that by 2014 the number of foreign operating locations will be cut by more than one-third. The number of official overseas “bases, installations, and facilities” maintained by DOD will fall from 850 to 550.

In Europe, 43 bases will have been closed by the end of this year, but the enduring installations such as Ramstein are being modernized. In South Korea, 59 facilities will be closed by 2008 . . .

It's a start. But certainly more closings would be possible.

As noted in "AIR FORCE Magazine", these issues have been largely unexamined for over 50 years.

Now we're starting to restructure - - but we're leaving the big questions up to people like Doug Feith.

http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/netslaves/manual/lesson_10.shtml

Lesson Ten:
Surviving Silicon Alley
(How You Too Can Rise to the Top of the Bottom in New York's Attitude-Ridden Net Scene)
by Steve Gilliard

http://stevegilliard.blogspot.com/2003/12/im-fighting-liberal-you-know-ive.html

Wednesday, December 03, 2003
I'm a fighting liberal

http://firedoglake.com/2006/09/10/thoughts-on-911

Sunday, September 10th, 2006
Thoughts on 9/11

Some words can be their own opposite, or nearly opposite.

"Sanction" means to punish or to endorse.
"Fast" means unmoving or swiftly moving.
"Aught" means all or nothing.
"Skin" means to cover or to uncover.
"Prove" means to question or to answer.
"Resent" once meant both to appreciate and to begrudge.

"Conservative" means principled, or unprincipled, but as with some of these other words, one of the meanings is archaic and almost obsolete.

Nowadays, in America, "conservative" mostly means worshipping Joe McCarthy and Ann Coulter and Karl Rove, and worshipping Richard Nixon not despite Watergate but because of it.

http://captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/010090.php

May 29, 2007
. . . Republicans have noted for the last six years -- that the Bush administration has not been conservative at all . . .
- - Ed Morrissey

True - - but only if "Republicans" means himself and Ron Paul.

Otherwise, it's just as Richard Vigurie said, that all different kinds of "conservatives" flew down to Austin in 1999 and looked into the Rorscharch ink blots in George Bush's eyes and saw whatever they wanted to see and came back home to tell their fellows, "Yes, he's one of us."