I'm not suggesting we leave
but if thing were as bad as the article portends, leaving would eventually be the only recourse as it was in VN. The writer is just one of the types that are caught up in a long past era.
Not that I don't agree we are between the rock and hard place. That was a foregone destination. It is a difficult task that we must indeed complete. I can only hope we knew that to begin with and are ready to do what needs to be done.