"If we had pulled out of Korea after the Armistice, do you think that the ROK forces could have held off the North?"
No, absolutely not. In fact, I think if we pulled pulled out now and completely washed our hands of Korea, South Korea would be hard pressed to hold them off today. But we've never washed our hands of Korea as we did with Vietnam. My point is it was a national decision, not a party one. The same Democratic Congress decided to hold the line in Korea while they abandoned Vietnam. Call it politics but I believe they represented the will of the people at the time. By then we were sick of war too.
One further reason for sticking in Korea was, of course, the need to maintain our position in East Asia. Japan had to be defended; China and The Soviet Union, opposed. South Korea was a forward position in our defence of that region. There is a tendency on the part of many, including this guy, to focus in Iraq, not noticing that the MSM is now starting to play up the uncertainties in Afghanistan. They have an ingained dislike of any use of military power .Even if it is vital to our national security, they don't want it used, except in the half-ass way that Bill Clinton did, something at the disposal of the "international community."or as part of a kind of chess game, where you move it around to overawe people, not understanding how this"video-game" stuff corrodes the efficiency of a military force. We see what this has done to the once excellent Canadian military. Clinton and his ilk have exactly the same mind-set as Trudeau.