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Macheath,
Those are apples and oranges.
The simple economic facts are that the base no longer has a reason to exist and should be shut down.
This is not punishing the local economy anymore than it punishes the economies of the dozens of US cities that have lost military bases (including Denver's Fitzsimmons Army Hospital and Lowry AFB).
Frankly, the suggestion that to do so is 'scor(ing) a few political points at home' is offensive to me, especially when you do not know all the facts and history of military base closings in the United States, it's territories and it's allied nations.
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