Good news! Thanks!
It's much better to shift US forces where we need them instead of camping out in Frankfurt eating Bratwurst and eyeing the local Frauleins.
And it would be insane not to try and set up a permanent military base when we have the opportunity. Diego Garcia was a ridiculous logistics nightmare for maintaining air superiority and trying to maintain influence in the hotbed of the Middle East and the Pakistan/India border zone:
source:globalsecurity.org
And as an added bonus the bases in Iraq help conserve fuel and the pollution caused by waste, thus helping the environment too.
It's a win-win proposition