From all the accounts I'm reading, it looks like the Iraqi security forces are regrouping, and have even retaken a couple villages. Shiite volunteers may be helping, and Iran may be playing a hand, too.

This may turn out to be more like Vietnam '68 than Vietnam '75. That still wouldn't be good, of course, but it sure would be better.

(Old-timers will probably know what I'm talking about.)

Onward and upward,
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