[W]hen the United States is engaged in a battle with a vicious enemy whose victory will produce death and enslavement on a massive scale, it is a crime of historic proportions to lose the fight because the resources devoted to the battle were insufficient. That would have been inconceivable six decades ago. It ought to be inconceivable now.
… The territory over which we fight is among the most strategically important in the world. Victory will place the most dangerous regime on the planet, Iran’s fascist theocracy, in serious peril. Defeat will leave that same regime inestimably strengthened. If there is any significant possibility that the presence of more American soldiers on the ground in Iraq would raise the odds of success, not putting those soldiers on the ground is a crime. Taking away the ones who are already there would be an atrocity.