POLITICAL SHOCKER! A Whiff of Truth on Afghanistan!
Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele blasted Obama’s Afghan troop surge last night at a Connecticut fundraiser.
Steele asked: “If [Obama's] such a student of history, has he not understood that you know that’s the one thing you don’t do, is engage in a land war in Afghanistan? Because everyone who has tried, over a thousand years of history, has failed.”
Steele’s comments shirked Republican responsiblity for starting the war - but even a brief moment of candor on this subject is a shock.
Steele’s comment produced indignant responses from Democrats and from neo-conservative laptop bombardiers.
I expect this controversy will be good for another couple laps over the holiday weekend.
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alpowolf
Comment on Saturday 3rd July 2010 @ 11:18 am
Steele is a knucklehead, but the DNC’s response is just plain hilarious. It’s as if they’d taken down Bush’s talking points verbatim. It just goes to show you: these ridiculous wars are an institutional problem, and the institution that is the problem is the State.
Jim
Comment on Saturday 3rd July 2010 @ 12:53 pm
It is difficult to detect the learning curve on this subject from either party…
Brendan O’Neill has a good piece online on how the Afghan war is now simply a PR scam…
http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2010/06/29/dying_for_a_pr_win_in_afghanistan_99038.html
Dirk W. Sabin
Comment on Friday 9th July 2010 @ 8:39 am
And it continues well past the holiday now, with back-peddling and all manner of slicing and dicing. Another lark from a baffled political mercenary, once again proving the nearness of our politics to
cannibalism. In particular, that banquet of sanguinary delight known as imbecility wed to cannibalism.
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