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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3 Responses to POLITICAL SHOCKER! A Whiff of Truth on Afghanistan!

  1. alpowolf July 3, 2010 at 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.

  2. Jim July 3, 2010 at 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

  3. Dirk W. Sabin July 9, 2010 at 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.