The Hoover Institution at Stanford University has published a highly interesting video interview with author Christopher Hitchens in which he discusses the Iraq war. Regarding the American "surge" in Iraq, Hitchens - rightly, I think - calls it "a huge mistake" to say that we should support the surge only if it is working.
"This must be supported whether it's going well or not," Hitchens says. He's not saying, of course, that we should continue ineffective military strategy, only that the war must be supported despite military setbacks because the cost of losing to al Qaeda is too high.
