Date: September 2, 2010
To: letters@globeandmail.ca
From: Geoffrey Smith
A Mighty Wind

U.S. President Barack Obama may think he is turning a big page in history by ending the American combat role in Iraq (Baghdad, Aug. 31, 2010 – Sept. 1), but the record demonstrates (and Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon knew this too well) that history has a way of turning its own pages. And presidents have been known to get caught in the tailwind.

Geoff Smith
Kingston