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Not on the border. The "Eisenhower" solution suggests we partition Iraq into part that likes us, and part that doesn't, and that we put all our troops on THAT border, essentially being the tripwire in a civil war.

It was vietnam where we tried the "move troops out of the country". That lead to our enemies destroying the country, AND a neighboring country, and leaving the people we "supported" in abject misery for 3 decades.

At least in Korea, we only left the world in terror, and half the country in misery -- the part we did NOT abandon turned out quite well.

Maybe THAT is the lesson we need.

So, except for the fact that the Korean War didn't end, our troops are still there, and the outcome has been the source of humanitarian and national-security nightmares, Webb's salute to Eisenhower's statesmanship really strikes home.

That's a pretty good slap-down of Webb. If Senator Allen had been able to get off some responses like that to Webb's inane comments during his 3 debates, we'd still have the Senate.