I know a few Vietnamese who feel betrayed thanks to the pulling of the rug out from under them.

As well they should, Ryan. And how much worse it was for those who could not escape.

To me, the most encouraging thing in Lanny Davis’ piece was this:

Surely we owe the al-Maliki government and the Shi’ite and Sunni soldiers who put their lives on the line against Shi’ite and Sunni extremists and terrorists at our behest some continuing presence and support and patience

As I said, there are some adults left in the Democrat party. Davis at least recognizes a moral obligation to the Iraqis who are risking everything to build a functioning democracy.

Unfortunately, he’s in a minority. The spineless far left that has carried Obama to the nomination cares only about seizing power here, and to hell with people fighting for freedom halfway around the world. Steve is correct – it’s Vietnam all over again for the left, and they’ll stab any friend in the back if it’s expedient.

Whenever I hear the leftists competing to see who can surrender the quickest, I always recall a letter written by Matak Sirak, a member of the Lon Nol government in Cambodia. After the Democrat congress deserted them, the US Ambassador offered Sirak the chance to escape before the Khmer Rouge moved into Phnom Penh and the killing fields began. Sirak refused:

Dear Excellency and friend,

I thank you very sincerely for your letter and for your offer to transport me towards freedom. I cannot, alas, leave in such a cowardly fashion.

As for you and in particular for your great country, I never believed for a moment that you would have this sentiment of abandoning a people which has chosen liberty. You have refused us your protection and we can do nothing about it. You leave us and it is my wish that you and your country will find happiness under the sky.

But mark it well that, if I shall die here on the spot and in my country that I love, it is too bad because we are all born and must die one day. I have only committed the mistake of believing in you, the Americans.

Please accept, Excellency, my dear friend, my faithful and friendly sentiments.

Sirik Matak.

He was executed a few days later.

The far left hasn’t progressed one bit since then. If the Obamaniacs have their way, there will be similar letters from Iraqis that will haunt us for decades to come. Count on it.

At the same time, they recast the war, which the US became involved in under JFK and LBJ, as “Nixon’s War.” So the fall of South Vietnam didn’t touch them at all.

Excellent point, Steve. Many forget it was Nixon who began the troop reductions.

I know a few Vietnamese who feel betrayed thanks to the pulling of the rug out from under them.

Is it possible, I wondered, that Iraqis truly did want democracy and freedom and the right to vote and government of the people, just as we Americans do? And were willing to fight for it, with our help?

Oh, my gosh genius. That’s only what we’ve been screaming until we’re blue in the face for the last 5 years.

Thanks for joining the party.

But if the Clintons aren’t a factor in the decision, Davis sometimes does think like an adult.

At the same time, they recast the war, which the US became involved in under JFK and LBJ, as “Nixon’s War.” So the fall of South Vietnam didn’t touch them at all.

If the same thing happens in Iraq, what concern is it to today’s Dems so long as they can get reelected? And no matter how their fingerprints will be all over the catastrophe, it will all be George Bush’s fault.

If these people had been aboard the Titanic, they would have spent their last few minutes wrestling with Captain Smith for the Captain’s hat, just so they could be Captain for however long they had left.

*(So he’s cooled the Earth, stopped the ocean’s rise, and even stopped time … This guy is good! )