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At the very least, he's guilty of minimizing the importance of troops coming home, and that's a crime of insensitivity, [to put it] in political terms. But worse, what he's really spelling out with these analogies is a very long term military standoff against Iran, presumably because that's the logical conclusion of what the German and South Korean analogies are. The troops in Germany weren't there to eat sauerkraut and drink beer. They were there, in harm's way, to stop the Warsaw Pact forces coming into Western Europe. So if that's what he's presenting, that's a very tough agenda for the election for him.