Is Afghanistan Worth The Price?

Christopher Hitchens says "yes".

This is a NATO responsibility backed up by a number of United Nations resolutions. If the Taliban are allowed to declare victory in Afghanistan, it means they beat the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the United States and the United Nations in open warfare and can boast about it. That is an outcome that is unthinkable. We can certainly prevent them from doing that.

 

I doubt even now they could take the cities, let alone hold them. I think that's already probably impossible. There are already large tracts of Afghanistan populated by peoples who would never submit to Taliban rule. All we need to do is make sure that these people do not lose and the Taliban cannot win.

We agree.