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.
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.
The Fox panel all called for the resignation. That includes Charles Krauthammer.
Steele is toast
The gasbag’s gotta go.
how about no more donations to the RNC until they put Steele on minimum wage?
Looks like the Stupid Party has found their hill to commit suicide on when it was looking so good for this fall.
We won the war in Afghanistan. We routed the Taliban. It should be over now.
But anyway.
Lots of people pee their pants over the thought of some muzzie with a knife on an airplane and think the Afghanistan nation building is proecting them.
You want to fix the threat of Islamic terrorism?
Do these things:
make and enforce sensible immigration laws
repeal every federal gun law
tell people the government can’t keep you safe and you’re on your own so prepare for muzzies.
It’s interesting that so many are focused on blowing money and American lives in Afghanistan while the debt bomb ticks.
I wonder what the people who pee themselves over the thought of some muzzie with a knife on a plane will do when Ears repudiates the debt.
What will China do? I’m sure they’ll realize we’re America and we can do what we want and they won’t do anything like go to war over it.
Gee, what will those people do if China decides to collect their debt in land and slaves and lands wave after wave on the West coast? I bet they’ll offer the Chinese invaders a beer at the news that another poppy field was burned in Afghanistan. No more bad people will be able to use that to get high!
Stupid party. Focused on suicide. Ignoring the elephant in the room. Burning the Afgha poppy fields on the deck of the Titanic.
But hey, maybe after you’re taken as a slave to repay the debt, the Chinese will let you have your rights. Sure.
Go ahead and tell me I hate Ameirca firs. I don’t care what you think about me.
Why don’t you call me a misogynist and a racist as well.
Anyone who questions the strategy, approach, operations, etc. of a military campaign in Afghanistan that has now lasted longer than both World Wars combined has every reason to do so. The Bush administration deserves no less criticism than the Obama administration on that count, too.
His (Steele's) comments on Afghanistan were a cornucopia of stupidity.Steele is obviously a Democratic plant.
I'm 'SERIES'. One would have to go to college, then Grad School and get a PhD in 'DUMB' to say the things Steele has.
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
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.”