Bring home the troops.

It is past time to remove U.S. troops from Korea. Sixty years of war is enough. South Korea is a developed country, with strong trade ties to China, the real threat in the the region. The South Korean Army is strong enough to handle the threat from the ramshackle DPRK Army, even without China's likely opposition to any substantial attack by the North Koreans.

The U.S. could save money by moving the troops back to the U.S. and putting them in the rotation to serve in Afghanistan and Iraq. Given all the various missions the U.S. military has been given, our present forces have been stretched thin. It is not realistic to trim defense spending unless we also begin to prioritize missions and trim those that are less pressing.