Posted on 07/03/2010 2:54:08 AM PDT by Michael van der Galien
Bill Kristol (the one from The Weekly Standard), is calling for RNC Chairman Michael Steele to resign after making horrendously idiotic comments about the war in Afghanistan. I’ll take it a step further: He should retire from politics altogether.
His comments on Afghanistan were a cornucopia of stupidity. Let’s take this point-by-point. First, he said that the war in Afghanistan is “a war of Obama’s choosing,” employing the rhetoric Democrats used against Bush, except this has no validity whatsoever at all. Every middle school student knows that the war in Afghanistan was going on long before Obama came into office. And using this false line of attack helps reinforce the perception being pushed by the anti-war crowd that we are “choosing” to be in Afghanistan, rather than being required to stay there out of necessity.
Oh, but it gets worse.
Steele then said that Obama should know that ground campaigns don’t work in Afghanistan. Apparently, Steele doesn’t see the difference between the Soviet invasion and our’s, and forgets that the same rhetoric was used against the war in Iraq.
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Steele is an idiot.
Go ahead and can him — as long as you are prepared to deal with accusations of GOP racism by the libtard media and the ‘Rats.
I’d hate to see a weenie like Steele become a distraction during the most critical congressional election we’ve had in years.
I must point out that Moogly did indeed chose Afghanistan as the Good war and Iraq as the bad one....
Moogly did state often that Afghanistan was the war we should fight, and I think that is all Steele was saying
If this is the best they get out of sneaking a camera in, Steele should keep pretending he wants no camera’s and keep saying stuff for their camera’s on purpose
Steele is a good man, leave him alone.
This is juvenile. Why not go farther and demand he be publicly flogged ?
Steele was right. This is the war of the Democrats choosing. It was over. We ran out Al Queda, installed a democratic government, called in the “Internationals” and began to reduce our presence. This was a much more thorough “victory” than was accomplished in Yugoslavia - which still remains a mess.
But no - that wasn’t good enough for the Dems. They beat the drum incessantly for 4 years that the “REAL WAR” was in Afghanistan. The Dem position was that THEY would focus on Afghanistan, capture Bin Ladin, defeat terrorism, and probably end global warming too. Effectively, they demanded we re-define the Afghan war to include clearing the hinterlands of all tribal war lords that rejected the rule of the new Government.
By that standard, Pakistan is also a failed state.
Then Obama announced this bizarre strategy of “surging to withdrawal” while indiscriminately firing off unmanned drone attacks. I’m sure those hellfire drone missiles into populated areas did a lot to win “hearts and minds”.
“Victory” in Afghanistan is only possible by returning to the original Bush/Rumsfeld definition of victory. That is - stable governing major population areas, reinforced by international forces. The idea that we can charge off into the Afghan hinterlands and weed out all the war lords and trouble makers is the epitome of the Dems favorite word during the Bush administration - Quagmire.
This has nothing to do with the rationale for the war ~ just its conduct ~ and Obama chose to continue the war.
If he hadn't, of course, we'd now have Jihadis all over the place blowing up everything here and he'd be cowering in the White House' underground bunker.
Now, regarding Afghanistan's history, this IS the most critical part of the old Silk Road. It's been out of business ever since railroads were cut across Asia and the modern containership was developed.
It used to be important ~ enough so that surrounding states found it useful to support one faction or another in Afghanistan's Forever War.
It's probably still important but the fuzzy wuzzies out in the hills growing dope don't know about that and don't care.
Both Steele & Kristol illustrate what’s wrong with the GOP. Steele has done a terrible job running the GOP...and he is one of the reasons we should not count our chickens yet. Having said that, what he said about Afghanistan is true. It’s time to kill as many Taliban as we can, declare victory, pull out and leave the cesspool. To call Bill Kristol a leader of the conservative movement is preposterous.
I liked Steele, until he got on the D.L. Hughly show and started to lambaste Limbaugh, just to suck up to another Brutha. His Bidenesque foot-in-mouth act is tiresome.
We went in there to punish the Taliban, not recreate a State.
We can keep the Taliban from regaining power with our mobility.
Amen.
The Fox panel all called for the resignation. That includes Charles Krauthammer.
Steele is toast
LLS
Regardless of what happens to the idiot steele the leftist media will call us racist.Do you care?I sure as hell dont and a large number of people I know dont care what they think either.
LLS
Steele probably voted for Obama...
Can you cite how?
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