Hitchens on Iraq

Don't miss Christopher Hitchens being interviewed by Peter Robinson on Uncommon Knowledge.

As Hitchens says, "you don't have to believe [the surge is] going well to support it."

The two crucial tasks that have to be accomplished in Iraq, says Hitchens, are that Al Qaeda cannot be allowed to have any sense of victory, no matter how small. Secondly, any gains that have been made by secular democrats, for example in the Kurdish region, are not rolled back.

Our job, he says, is to empower the center and prevent sectarianism from taking permanent hold.