Why is it that conservative women pols are always being told they need to “bone up” on history? I know a lot of male pols who could start hitting the books if need be told.
Why not say you totally disagree with her position on Afghanistan and will not support her until she changes that position? Why is the implication that she’s somehow uneducated?
Actually, I “kind of” agree with it, the devil being in the details. Christians understand something about both God and the devil that most atheists don’t. This might help an America under a Bachmann administration achieve something in an Islamic Afghanistan that the atheistic Russia could not. But she needs to point to concrete signs of progress that gives a reasoned basis for hope. This is where knowing history can help her make a clearer case, if one exists, for why she believes she can succeed where Russia failed.