Our "Iraqi Harkis"

To continue a bit with the Algeria theme from yesterday. There's an excellent article at Salon interviewing Alistair Horne and considering the relevance to Iraq of his ideas about war. Of course Horne's A Savage War of Peace has been one of my prized books for many years, but Horne is an odd duck and I'm not so sure I'd want to consider his (or Kissinger's) suggestions for solving Iraq. Nevertheless one issue Horne brings up — but doesn't really answer — is worth pondering, because it's likely to be an increasingly important factor in our efforts. That's what happens to our Iraqi servants when we leave? In Algeria, a large number of Harkis came back to France with the French, and also a large number were killed in Algeria when the French left. In Vietnam the U.S. took in at least 20,000 Vietnamese as we retreated. Again, some large number of collaborators were killed. So far as I know there was little to zero (somebody who knows otherwise please correct me if I'm mistaken here) concern at that time whether we were importing VC who'd continue the war within the U.S. In Iraq, things are different. It would be politically impossible, and extremely unwise as well, to bring large numbers of Iraqis back to the U.S. What to do? Relocate "our Harkis" to Israel? To Syria? To India?? Up until now, by and large, our Iraqi collaborators do not seem to have been seized of the idea that when the U.S. withdraws they will be left in deep trouble. But what happens when that collective realization becomes widespread? It must at some point begin to affect their attitudes and I should think it will be a key reason why we'll never secure sufficient cooperation for our plans to work.