South Koreans have been less than "welcoming" to our soldiers for a while. They are not happy about American installations in prime real estate areas, and there's some racism, too. I would say that we should draw down 35,000 troops out. That would actually give us better relations with South Korea. It would also force the SK to put the manipulated South Korean college students who periodically protest American soldiers in uniform, where NK troops can play "shave and a haircut" with them with bullets on the DMZ. The SK students are not at the DMZ, so they don't realize that the NK troops are not as "nice" as the infiltrators Kim sends in to stir things up. It's amazing what some experience at the DMZ does to those kids' perspective.

I have friends in Korea. The DMZ can be a hard tour, let the Koreans handle it. They are well prepared, their soldiers are excellent,a nd little military discipline might teach some of the students to stop throwing rocks through American soldiers' car windows.