I’m Going Further Than Kristol: Steele Shouldn’t Only Resign As RNC Chairman...

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[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.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Thats the funniest post today.

[dennisw]

No way are the big money bags donors going to contribute to the Republican party as long as this Obama-like idiot is in charge. He is a saboteur same as 0bama sabotages the Gulf. Republicans were fools to put this Steele up at the top. Whatever happened the Haley Barbour types who just got it done without the craziness? I guess that’s too boring for everyone

[stockpirate]

As I stated here on FR months ago, “Steele will be the democrats October suprise by resigning his position and claiming he has to due to racsism in the republican party.”

[RobbyS]

Yes, that is what he OUGHT to have said. The problem is that is NOT WHAT he said. Our basic problem is that we hired a black man as a front man, and we hired the wrong black man.

[crescen7]

Thanks, I’m a bit surprised that I didn’t get flamed for my post.

I agree we went in to punish the Taliban, who were providing safe haven for Al Queda, and ultimately to defeat Al Queda. But I think it was always a part of the plan to attempt to see that Afghanistan did not fall back into the power vacuum that allowed the Taliban to flourish after the retreat of the Russians.

I do concur though, that our commitment to “nation building” needed to be limited, and that a small mobile strike force based in a secured functioning population center should be capable of preventing the Taliban from regaining a serious foothold.