Over the past several days and weeks, the rhetoric in DC has been that Obama made Afghanistan his own by attacking Bush for fighting the wrong war. He then did this surge and he owns this war! It's a irrefutable political fact, and any failure belong to him and not Bush.
But for some reason the headline comes out like he is being critical of the troops or some other crap spread by the DNC.
Even Carl Rove fell for it.
Like I said, Steele can't ever get his foot out of his mouth, but it's not all his fault. He has enemies galore and no friends.
I have commented here in the past that Obama owns this war. Shortly after being sworn in he fired General McKiernan. He hand picked McChrystal to take over and bought into his COIN strategy. He immediately sent an additional 21000 troops then approved another 30,000 (that surge won’t be complete till Sep). The wizard of smart then fired McChrystal and chose Petraeus, the author of McChrystal’s COIN strategy, to replace him. After 18 months in office Obama is on his third commander in Afghanistan. Despite what Steele may or may not have meant, this is Obama’s war lock, stock, and casualty list.