Victor Davis Hanson on Iraq and Exit Strategy on National Review Online

"Yet leaving unilaterally from Iraq would be a tragic mistake. We have already done something like that before -- many times. What rippled out afterwards was not pretty. American helicopters flying off the embassy roof in Saigon in 1975 gave us the climate for the Soviets in Afghanistan, Communists in Central America, and embassy hostage-taking in Tehran. Ignoring murders in Lebanon, New York, East Africa, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen, or lobbing an occasional cruise missile as tit-for-tat payback when terrorists harvested one too many expendable Americans abroad, ensured us September 11. In our loony world, losing credible deterrence (and we would) is an invitation for disaster -- as bin Laden himself illustrated when he logically thought that the toppling of the World Trade Center would be followed by another Black Hawk Down American pullback."

I too believe pulling out of Iraq would be the biggest mistake we could make. Those who recall the horror of 9/11 surely cannot believe that Iraq would not be completely overrun by terrorists who would in turn gain strength so that once again
they could perpetrate massive attacks on the USA. This truly would become another Vietnam in which the people we fought to liberate would be massacred by the radical Islamists.

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