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[elhombrelibre]

Certainly quiting Iraq would assure that anyone who was foolish enough to believe we'd stand by them, like the South Vietnamese and now the Iraqis, is going to be punished in the extreme. The entire Iraqi military logistics system is based on our support. Pull out before they're ready and there will be a cataclysmic bloodbath. The author is either a dilettante or cavalierly callous in a way that'd shock anyone with the slightest concern for humanity.

The author talks of Carter's moral ambivalence and then, like some boastful ignoramus without the slightest hint of self awareness of what he's just written, offers that same moral ambivalent prescription for the Iraqis. And what an arrogant racist tirade against the Arabs by this popinjay Coren. The gist of this article advice hearkens back to the sentiments before WWI when people said the same thing about the Europeans. They'll always be killing each other.

Pull out of Iraq and al Qaeda will be encouraged as it was after Somalia. Finish in Iraq with a stable government and the tide will be turned. Pay a small but painful price today to finish it, or pay a huge price tomorrow for our craven indifference.