A Stitch in Haste

Because there's no one there worth staying for:

Insurgents detonated a bomb in a car with two children in it after using the children as decoys to get through a military checkpoint in Baghdad, an American general said Tuesday.

Speaking at a news briefing at the Pentagon, Maj. Gen. Michael Barbaro, deputy director for regional operations at the Joint Staff, said American soldiers had stopped the car at the checkpoint but had allowed it to pass after seeing the two children in the back seat.

People who blow up their own children simply cannot be redeemed. There is nothing, absolutely nothing, that we can do for a land populated by such people. And such people are not worth one drop of our soldiers' blood or one dollar of our tax bill.

All we can do is leave, and enable the non-monster elements of Iraqi society to leave with us ("Yankee go home — and take me with you!"). Much of the non-barbarian Iraqi middle class has already left anyway.

Would Iran invade? Perhaps. Or maybe Syria. Or Saudi Arabia. Or Turkey. Or all of the above.

So what? Let the Iraqi ogres blow them up instead of us — or their own children.

There is simply no way anymore to blame the United States for people blowing up their own children. And there is no way to blame us for now walking away from this Islamic cesspool that, at this point at least, is simply no longer our fault.