U.S. Quitting?
There has been a flurry of media regarding the Iraq Study group report, among which is the Washington Post. Near the bottom of the Post article is this paragraph:

Quang X. Pham, author of a memoir about his service in the U.S. Marine Corps and his father's time as a pilot for the South Vietnamese military, said he considers the troop plan a thinly disguised form of quitting. "In one year, during the 2008 election year, the United States will abandon and betray Iraq as it did South Vietnam," predicted Pham, who was a pilot during the Persian Gulf War.

This was in response to the report's recommendation for near complete withdraw of troops from Iraq by the start of 2008. Pham's comment reminds me of how in the 1st Gulf War the U.S. called the Iraqi's to rise up against Saddam Hussein's government; Iraqis did but the U.S. did not come to back them up, so those people were massacred by Hussein. Will the people again be left to the wolves - that influx of chaos into Iraq? With all this call for withdrawal, is the U.S. giving up on them? There was so much (bipartisan) celebration and hope at the start of the war to bring positive change to the region. Will the region be stabilized in a year? Let's hope so.