by Scott Ott
(2004-06-07) -- Just 54 years after President Harry Truman sent U.S. forces to invade the Korean peninsula, his exit strategy is showing early signs of success with the announcement that the U.S. will withdraw 12,000 troops from South Korea by the end of this year.
The move will leave just 25,000 U.S. military personnel in a post-war situation which critics in the Senate have called "a quagmire."
Senate Democrats, however, hailed President Truman's foresight and contrasted his foreign policy triumph with the Bush administration's poor planning in the month's leading up to the Iraq war.
"You can't just go storming into a country without a plan to get out," said an unnamed Senate Democrat. "Maybe now Bush will get a clue and learn some lessons from President Truman."
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