It's too easy to discuss this as if the only options are continued military occupation on the one hand and "walking away" on the other. We have spent the past several years destroying Iraq, so we certainly have obligations there. That doesn't mean we carry out those obligations our way and our way alone. The course of the Iraqi recovery must be directed by the Iraqi people. Our job is to support Iraqi initiatives to build sustainable political and physical infrastructures, not hold the place hostage while selling it out to corporate interests.