Hillary Clinton has announced that she will end the war in Iraq as her first act after she takes office as President in January 2009. This is similar to the promise Eisenhower made to end the Korean war in the 1952 election. He didn't say how he would do it, but we had a good idea. He ordered increased attacks on the Chinese (the North Korean army had been destroyed or captured earlier), and told them that he would use nuclear weapons if they didn't agree to an armistice. (This is depicted to some extent in the war movie "Pork Chop Hill" starring Gregory Peck.)It is hard to imagine that Mrs. Clinton has anything in mind similar to what Eisenhower did. I suspect she is thinking of withdrawal. I don't think Iran would be impressed by threat of using nuclear weapons on them; the President is suicidal anyway. I could be wrong because some of Mullahs seem to be intent on acquiring fortunes for themselves and their families. She could just remove US Forces from the scene, but that would not stop the war in Iraq. More than likely a regional war would erupt with Iran and Saudi Arabia continuing the fight in Iraq. And it would not stop the Islamic Jihadists attack on the West. It may be more likely that she would pull a Kennedy. Kennedy ran on a platform that Russia had more ICBM's than the US, which he called the "missile gap," something that he knew was untrue. After he was elected he just said to the effect, Oh well, it turns out there was no missile gap after all.

It appears that out politicians running for President don't want to accept that Islamic Jihadists want to destroy us. It has nothing to do with anything we have done. Their religion demands that they subjugate or kill all non-believers, and they have been working on that for 1300 years. The politicians seem to think that only a small percentage of the Muslims are radical to the extent that they are willing to die to kill us. That may be true, but the vast majority of them would like to take over the world by more peaceful means, like by immigration and out reproducing us, and then voting in Sharia Law. Sharia Law is incompatible with our Constitution in that it subjugates minorities rather than protecting minority rights. Ironically they use our protection of minorities to attack us.