save money--close some foreign bases

A GMU prof, Hugh Gusterson, has suggested in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (you know, the one with the doomsday clock!) that it's time to look at shuttering some of America's overseas bases. He argues that closing many of our approximately 1,000 foreign bases would save the taxpayers billions of dollars a year, decrease resentments that have built up among our allies, and bring us back closer to our nation's original founding in a rebellion against colonizers.
He suggests that the next 50 years will see strong movements against U.S. bases, and reminds us that the Declaration of Independence had strong words against bad habit of the British of quartering troops among the colonies...Words to the wise...
http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/columnists/hugh-gusterson/empire-of-bases