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To: epicure who wrote (115792)	9/27/2003 9:23:25 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (2) of 281500

<Currently, US forces are committed to 136 countries.> Amazing, because even that understates our Global Reach. <37,000 troops are stationed in South Korea, serving as...> ...hostages to a N. Korea nuclear or mass artillery attack. The level of inertia, in our force deployments, is amazing. Our troops in Germany are there, to defend against a threat that evaporated 13 years ago. I am probably displaying my ignorance of the military, but, with 2.6 million soldiers (1.4 million on active duty and 1.2 million in the reserves), why aren't there any more available for Iraq? Why are we "tapped out"? Even including support forces in the area, we've got substantially less than 10% of our total forces in Iraq today.

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