[TribalPrincess2U]

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[Cold Heat]

No problem TP. I have not commented on Steele and Afghanistan much on this forum because it's not anything I can fix. I am just a watcher like everyone else, but I can't let people demand someone like Steele who really is meaningless in the big picture, but to do so and upset the RNC so close to November is politically stupid.

As to Obama, he does own this war and the war in Iraq and neither are really wars in the real sense, they are both nation building operations. No different then past CIA operations but on a bigger scale.

Our history is full of failures in this regard. The successes were done differently. The enemy was soundly defeated and demoralized and we don't do that anymore and as a consequence of not defeating the enemy totally and without question, we have lost every attempt since WWII. The jury is still out in Iraq, and Afghanistan is a 7 going on eighth year mess that has become much worse since zero took the reigns. Iraq is at a turning point and we are in the middle of a withdrawal.

I don't have any hope at the present time for the success of any of this, but if I picked one that was worth the price, especially now with Iran's meddling in the world and the Soviet Bear's return to the world stage, I would put all our eggs in Iraq and make it ours.