I don't know if they're there to "fight insurgents" or whatever. But I do worry that we may really, really be stretched too thin now. W. ordered 51,000 troops to LA, AL and MS on top of the 150,000 or so in Iraq, how ever many are still in Afghanistan and the permanent garrisons and S. Korea, Germany and Japan.

Makes me wonder who's got our backs if the shit goes down.