Bill Kristol Must Resign!:
“Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele was absolutely right. Afghanistan is Obama’s war and, judging by other recent Democratic ventures in military affairs, isn’t likely to turn out well.”
Ann Coulter is right on. Michael Steele was exactly correct. Remember Obama campaigned on Afghanistan as the “righteous war.” He claimed, as do all liberals that Iraq was Viet Nam
Having said that, I am still not a fan of Michael Steele. In my opinion he has done a terrible job of running the RNC.
Why here, why now
Ann argues, correctly , that Afghanistan was pointless to build up, while Iraq was not only aiding and abetting terrorists but was a nation that could be an ally. It’s called Foreign Policy and Defense of our country.
Having some vague concept of America’s national interest — unlike liberals — the Bush administration could see that a country of illiterate peasants living in caves ruled by “warlords” was not a primo target for “nation-building.”
By contrast, Iraq had a young, educated, pro-Western populace that was ideal for regime change.
It’s not surprising that liberals do not understand what is in our nation’s best interest. This assumes they actually care.
Having absolutely no interest in America’s national security, the entire Democratic Party (save Joe Lieberman) wailed about the war in Iraq for five years, pretending they really wanted to go great-guns in Afghanistan. What the heck: They had already voted for the war in Afghanistan in the wake of 9/11 when they would have been hanged as traitors had they objected.
The obsession with Afghanistan was pure rhetoric. Democrats have no interest in fighting any war that would serve America’s interests. (They’re too jammed with their wars against Evangelicals, Wal-Mart, the Pledge of Allegiance, SUVs and the middle class.) Absent Iraq, they’d have been bad-mouthing Afghanistan, too.
If news outlets started to cover news in an attempt to aid Americans in understanding what is best for our Nation; the Democrats would be out of business.
UPDATE: LAT agrees with Coulter
I can not believe that I am reading this on the LAT: Obama’s War
Perhaps no issue illustrates the divide between the president and his party as the troop increase in the Afghanistan war, an escalated military campaign that many Democrats opposed.
Liberals fought President George W. Bush on the war in Iraq. Some Democrats won their seats in the 2006 and 2008 elections doing so. But while many Democrats believe Afghanistan is the right war to fight, Obama’s decision to add 30,000 more troops last winter gave the worried pause.
Because of deepening economic distress at home combined with political and military setbacks in Afghanistan, some Democrats see the war as one without end and one they cannot philosophically or economically support
Yes folks the LAT actually was honest, sort of honest.
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