Failing our friends.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at windmills - Brief article

The New Yorker's George Packer, who has been one of my allies in the effort to get some attention paid to the need to rescue our Iraqi friends as the situation there disintegrates, recently asked a young Iraqi why he had little hope in finding asylum in the United States. The answer:

"For the U.S. to give an asylum for an Iraqi, means they have failed in Iraq."

This is exactly what happened in Vietnam. We waited until the very last minute to admit failure...