If you read between the lines of Hackworth's comment, you'll note a dry irony. It was Jimmy Carter during the last decade who "negotiated" us into the present nuclear mess with North Korea. Hack is calling for us to distract the DPRK with "carrots" (a la Jimmy's last giveaway) -- while we pull our USA and USAF troops out of the beaten zone near the DMZ, where they now crouch as outnumbered speedbumps.