Commentary: Less is more By ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE UPI Editor at Large

WASHINGTON, July 20 (UPI) -- America's global commitments, from Japan to Germany, from NATO to Afghanistan, from EUCOM to AFRICOM, from the Gulf of Mexico to the Persian Gulf, from USPACOM in Honolulu to CENTCOM in Tampa, Fla., all are being reassessed -- at home and abroad.

Can a superpower whose infrastructure is rapidly decaying to Third-World standards in many sectors and in need of a $1 trillion face-lift afford to be the free world's gendarme, spending more on defense than the rest of the world put together?