This is a long interview with Tony Blair on the background to the liberation of Iraq, but the sobering bit comes right at the end. The former Prime Minister, one of life’s boundless optimists, is slumped in near-Steynian pessimism:

The enemy that we are fighting I am afraid has learnt . . . that our stomach for this fight is limited and I believe they think they can wait us out. Our determination has got to match theirs and our will has got to be stronger than theirs and at the moment I think it is probably not.