The first thing that caught my attention was Steele saying that Afghanistan was a war of Obama’s choosing. Um, I guess he hasn’t been paying attention the last 9 years but we’ve been there since 2001. Sure, Obama has sent alot of troops to Afghanistan and upped the pressure to get out, but he didn’t technically choose the war.
Here’s a quote from the somewhat hard to understand video (via The Plum Line):
“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 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.”