Is it tomorrow yet, or is it still yesterday? So the last of our American troops are out of Iraq after what is a lifeTime for many and death for tens of thousands. Judgment on whether we should have been there or not is moot, we're out, and the Iraqi people should be relieved because once America gets in and a foothold, it's not easy to get shed of us. I've wondered how Germans really feel, even with the Russian threat, about American soldiers still being there, now eighty-one years after our World War Two victory and occupation.  And Japan, the Japanese. Living in Japan in the mid-1960s, I watched as hordes of Japanese demonstrators danced and chanted and moved against the main gate of the U.S. Naval Base, Yokosuka (a major Imperial Japanese Navy base during WW2, but ever since then the homeport of the US 7th Fleet), the weight of the immense crowds bowing the gate and fence inward while I stood and watched as the evening duty officer. I was a US Navy lieutenant, there was...