Steele commits Own Goal on Afghanistan Comments

I have to level out criticism when it is due and GOP Chairman Michael Steele needs some history lessons himself.

"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's tried, over a thousand years of history, has failed," Steele said. "And there are reasons for that. There are other ways to engage in Afghanistan."

I wouldn't call the British holding Afghanistan from 1839 - 1919 a failure. If not for WW1 I would be willing to bet the Brits would have still been able to hold Afghanistan for many more years after 1919. They fought 3 major wars against the Afghan people and one 2 out of 3. They were eventually removed but you cannot say that controlling Afghanistan for 80 years was some sort of disastrous failure.

In any case that defeatist talk should not come out of any top official in the GOP and Steele should really look at stepping down. I mean he is taking the same tract as the Dems did when it was Bush's failed war. Now that Obama has taken possession of the war by sending an additional 30,000 troops the GOP needs to support their commander in chief.