Why we MUST stay the course!

Right off the Shore had a great post about the newest letter from Ayman al-Zawahri, al-Qaida's number two. This once again proves why we must stay the course in Iraq. After they "expel the Americans from Iraq, they want to,

Establish an Islamic authority or amirate, then develop it and support it until it achieves the level of a caliphate- over as much territory as you can to spread its power in Iraq, i.e., in Sunni areas, is in order to fill the void stemming from the departure of the Americans, immediately upon their exit and before un-Islamic forces attempt to fill this void, whether those whom the Americans will leave behind them, or those among the un-Islamic forces who will try to jump at taking power.

Al-Qaida is preparing for an American withdrawal from the region and they want to fill in the power vacuum that is formed. Iraq will become a fundamental Islamic country and will threaten Israel and America. A pull out now will require us to go back in 10 years and we will be fighting 10 time more people and will have lost our allies in the region...Because they will all be executed by Zawahri and his al-Qaida allies.

What is even more disconcerning is the fact that Zawahri knows his history. He references the quick withdrawal from Vietnam.

Things may develop faster than we imagine. The aftermath of the collapse of American power in Vietnam-and how they ran and left their agents-is noteworthy. Because of that, we must be ready starting now, before events overtake us, and before we are surprised by the conspiracies of the Americans and the United Nations and their plans to fill the void behind them.

They are ready for us to pull out and the victims will be hundreds of thousands of Shias. If we as a nation have any humanity, we will stay in Iraq until it is stable enough to crush an al-Qaida uprising.