If we betray them a second time, don’t expect a third welcome. They already mistrust our honor after the 1991 bug-out that left them in the hands of Saddam Hussein. And it won’t just be the Iraqis who watch whether we keep our word; the Afghanis, the Saudis, the Jordanians all will take note of another retreat — and they will make their deals with radical Islamist terrorists accordingly.
We also abandoned the Kurds in 1975 in one of those Realpolitik deals that gave Iran a better border deal with Iraq. Will the Kurds think we won't turn on them again if they see us abandon the Shias a second time?
Will anybody trust us as an ally for the next generation? Will any enemy fear us?
Yet another price we pay for that dissent the anti-war side engages in so enthusiastically.
It's almost as if our Left is pursuing exactly what they want to achieve.
