Iraqi refugees and withdrawal

In what I think is a well-intentioned but misleading post, Brian Beutler (guestblogging for Yglesias, and referencing a Spencer Ackerman post) argues that fast withdrawal from Iraq is the only way to decrease the total number of Iraqis that die as a result of working with* American forces.  He writes:

This isn’t my issue, but I don’t see an easy answer here that doesn’t involve a swift draw down of U.S. forces from Iraq. As our commitment there decreases, the number of these sorts of entanglements will go with it, and fewer peoples’ lives will be at risk.

I'm not sure I understand what this means. It's not as if letting some of our current translators go is going to prevent them from being at risk for reprisal; there are hundreds, if not thousands, of former translators for MNF-Iraq who quit their jobs, and still had to flee Iraq out of fear for their lives.

The problem isn't the people we'll employ in the future, or even the people we employ now; it's the people we used to employ, who lack protection even if they return. I really wish the discussion about withdrawal was more about offering visas and asylum, and less about how many months and how many troops.

*If you don't get why this is so terrifying for translators, remember how the term "collaborator," is used as an epithet in movies about World War II...