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>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_deployments
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>Kevin..
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>We have over 49K troops in South Korea, over 20K in Japan, 11K in Kuwait.. etc, etc.
>The US spends twice on military costs what the next 10 countries combined spend.
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>Do you really want to talk about guarding embassies?


Geez, I never would have thought of such an advanced search tool like Wikipedia, haha :)

You raised the State Department, and that made me think of embassies. Of course we have a presence in other areas...as well we should. But that doesn't vitiate my point about security of embassies.