Hitchens: Does the left realize Obama's committing us to endless war in Afghanistan?

Sorry to turn this into Matthews Day at HA. I don’t think Hitch means this disapprovingly — he certainly didn’t two years ago when he defended the prospect of a long commitment in Afghanistan — but things have deteriorated since then, to the point where some NATO countries are now considering asking Iran to provide them with supply routes. As noted last week, if you listen hard you can already hear the first stirrings of leftist anti-war grumbling about “the good war”; Matthews is clearly warming to the thought of giving up, and it won’t take much for liberals as hardcore as Conason to turn. I’m not too worried about Hitchens, though. He recognizes this as a test of wills. And the wills involved aren’t just the west’s and the Taliban’s. Read it and weep.