The Occasional Observer

...in a letter to the editor at the Wall Street Journal entitled "Our Common Struggle." Well worth reading.

I'm not sure what the next step in Iraq should be (more troops engaging sectarians, removal from cities to provide border security, reduction in troops coupled with a an attempt at obtaining multi-lateral political support and stability, etc.), but I know what it must not be: an all-out abandonment of Iraq to Islamists that resembles the abandonment of Saigon to the NVA in '75.