"Jay Honeck" writes:

We'll know the same way we knew when Viet Nam was over -- we'll coldly turn
our backs on our Iraqi allies, and cut and run.

Like we turned our back on our European allies when they dared to
disagree with Big Brother?

We have no Iraqi allies. We have no allies at all in the Mideast,
just opportunists who may have momentarily aligned with Big Brother,
but would cut his throat--literally--if they thought it would do them
some good.