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Sometimes the truth hurts.\u00a0 I understand why Republicans are furious with Michael Steele. \u00a0\u00a0Bill Kristol pointed out that when it comes to war, Republicans believe that the country must remain united behind a U.S. \u00a0President, \u00a0even if they despise him.\u00a0 \u00a0To Republicans, partisanship must end at the nations borders.\u00a0 \u00a0That is why they supported Bill Clinton when he launched an attack on Iraq during his impeachment trial.\u00a0 It is also why they are supporting Obama today.\u00a0 This is a significant contrast between Republicans and Democrats, since Democrats have no problem at all in undermining a Republican President, regardless of consequences.\u00a0 With regard to Richard Nixon and later Gerald Ford, the Democrats in congress literally engineered a defeat. \u00a0\u00a0With regard to George Bush, they did everything possible to undermine him, including numerous votes to cut off funding, even though most of them had voted to authorize the war.<\/p>\n

But with regard to Afghanistan, Michael Steele may have got it right.\u00a0 He just did a lousy job of making the case.\u00a0 I believe that George Bush knew from the start that he could never succeed in building a nation in Afghanistan, but he could remove the Taliban from power and could deal a significant blow to al Qaeda.\u00a0 During the Bush administration we built very little in Afghanistan and mostly kept a limited force there to keep a lid on things.\u00a0 Democrats claim that Bush should have concentrated on Afghanistan rather than Iraq, but perhaps Bush never intended much more in Afghanistan, because he knew\u00a0Afghanistan was very different.\u00a0 \u00a0Obama came in and decided that that the real war against al Qaeda was in Afghanistan, even though al Qaeda had been thrown out of Afghanistan by Bush.\u00a0 It was Obama who decided to make this the front line of the war on terror and who has given orders to our troops designed to win the hearts and minds of people by refusing to fire back.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If Bush had stayed in office, I do not believe he would have sent many more troops to Afghanistan.\u00a0\u00a0 I think he would have opted for some version of the status quo:\u00a0 enough troops to keep the Taliban and particularly al Qaeda out of power, but no major commitment of forces.\u00a0 Unfortunately Bush will not say, because unlike Bill Clinton, George Bush refuses to undermine a sitting U.S. President.\u00a0 In any event, Steele may be more right than not.\u00a0 We did go into Afghanistan for the right reason, we needed to remove the Taliban from power and we definitely had to destroy those al Qaeda safe havens.\u00a0\u00a0 But, we did not need to try and bring civilization to a part of the world that has resisted it for over 2,000 years.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.politicsdaily.com\/2010\/07\/06\/michael-steele-right-about-obama-and-afghanistan-war\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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