The source of much of my information for my first post was stratfor.com, a firm that prepares commercial intelligence summaries. The founder of the company has been a guest on Lou Dobb's Moneyline, on several MSNBC shows, and is generally about as liberal as Torone AI, er, Mike.
Besides, a doctrinaire liberal response to Colins original post would read something like
"The war pigs are not pulling back far enough. They should all be brought back to the United States and be given jobs in organic farming; the money spent for weapons should be redirected to developing tofu for everyone. If we can just UNDERSTAND the North Koreans, karma will return to pastel colors and all will be well."
I personally think it's a good idea for the first reason I gave - "reduce the possibility that some incident short of an invasion along the DMZ will involve Americans."