The McChrystal incident, to me, was very comical. And I think it's a reflection of the frustration that a lot of our military leaders have with this Administration and their prosecution of the war in Afghanistan. Keep in mind again, federal candidates, this was a war of Obama's choosing. This is not something the United States had actively prosecuted or wanted to engage in.
It was one of those, one of those areas of the total board of foreign policy ["in the Middle East"? -- Note: The audio is not quite clear in this section.] that we would be in the background, sort of shaping the changes that were necessary in Afghanistan as opposed to directly engaging troops, but it was the president who was trying to be cute by half by flipping a script demonizing Iraq, while saying the battle really should be in Afghanistan. Well, if he'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? All right, because everyone who has tried, over a thousand years of history, has failed. And there are reasons for that. There are other ways to engage in Afghanistan.
Wow.... Ain't that some ****.
Guess he thinks Obama was elected in 2000?
YouTube - Michael Steele Opposing the Troops in Afghanistan
(audio is tough but here's a transcript)
Well, if he'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?
* [to the Man in Black] Ha ha! You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is "Never get involved in a land war in Asia," but only slightly less well known is this: "Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line! [laughs maniacally and then falls over dead]
Michael Steele is quite possibly the biggest pinhead in the Republican party.
:lamo
Oh, and this?
Ohnoheditint!
i recall the hubris from the reich wing when Obama took time to evaluate and qualify the mccrystal strategy to ramp up the number of troops deployed to afghanistan
they were livid at the time that Obama did not immediately implement mccrystal's expansion proposal
now, we have a classic catch 22
if we withdraw our troops, then Obama is painted by the reich wing as a president unwilling to defend the citizens of the USA from terrorist aggression
if we continue dubya bin lyin's war in the middle east, then they try to re-write history to make the loss of our youth and treasure due to Obama rather than it being one of the many messes he inherited from a dysfunctional republican regime
What the **** is the "reich wing"?
Idiotic partisan hack speech meant to deflect from the fact that the poster is chattering a lot but saying very little.
I was going to say the same thing. It's the one thing RNC Chairmain Steele got right in his idiotic commentary. He was 100% wrong on every other point....completely wrong!Actually, that's the only thing he was correct about: you don't engage a land war in afghanistan. Period. No one has ever been successful in doing so.
He should resign or the GOP should remove him. It is stunning how he fails to recall that the U.S. went to war in Afghanistan in 2001 after the Al Qaeda terrorist attacks and the Taliban's refusing to hand over the Al Qaeda leadership. Raising questions about the current strategy or current policy is one thing. Misrepresenting history is quite another.
Steele's an idiot and needs to go.
In my best leftie lisp....'Why, because he's black!'
Moon is not a leftie...
What steele said was wrong.
Get your partisan hackery the **** outta here.
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i recall the hubris from the reich wing when Obama took time to evaluate and qualify the mccrystal strategy to ramp up the number of troops deployed to afghanistan
they were livid at the time that Obama did not immediately implement mccrystal's expansion proposal
now, we have a classic catch 22
if we withdraw our troops, then Obama is painted by the reich wing as a president unwilling to defend the citizens of the USA from terrorist aggression
if we continue dubya bin lyin's war in the middle east, then they try to re-write history to make the loss of our youth and treasure due to Obama rather than it being one of the many messes he inherited from a dysfunctional republican regime
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