"Thank you, but don't leave yet."

Ralph Kostant observes:

In this column from today’s Wall Street Journal, the first democratically elected President of Iraq, Jalal Talabani, recounts the remarkable progress that Iraq has made from tyranny toward republican government in the two years since the Coalition invasion, thanks the United States for its leadership, and pleads that America stay the course until the job is done.

Ralph B. Kostant