Abu Wabu

The incomparable Mark Steyn reflects on President Bush's historic "Vietnam" speech, and on the price of abandoning Iraqis to the defeatist idiots who would see them slaughtered in service to The Great Humiliation Of The United States Of America:

At least in Indochina, those who got it so horribly wrong – the Kerrys and Fondas and all the rest – could claim they had no idea of what would follow.

To do it all over again in the full knowledge of what followed would turn an aberration into a pattern of behavior. And as the Sirik Mataks of Baghdad face the choice between staying and dying or exile and embittered evenings in the new Iraqi émigré restaurants of London and Los Angeles, who will be America's allies in the years ahead?

Anyone?