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“I know that my remarks may have been a little bit confusing or misunderstood,” Steele told the Nevada Republican Party Convention on Friday.
Actually, Steele’s comments weren’t in the least bit confusing. In fact, they were quite clear and lucid. Steele said the United States has no business fighting in Afghanistan; and he attempted to distance conservatives and the Republican Party from the war.
But that was then. This is now:
Afghanistan is a war we can win. It is perhaps the hardest place in the world to win a war but this is America. And with the right leadership, and with the right resources, and the right rules of engagement on the ground, we not only can win, we must win. We will win. And we will not leave our soldiers alone in the battle.
Well, alright then! Chairman Steele seems to have had an epiphany and thus now finally sees the light — or so one hopes. But with this guy, you never really know for sure. As RNC chairman, after all, Steele has often been an unguided missile which detonates in unexpected and troublesome places.
For now, though, it sounds like Steele has emphatically rejected Buchanan’s offer to mount an insurgent anti-war campaign in 2012. Instead, as the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports, Steele told a cheering audience of about 300 GOP faithful that:
We don’t need the fight inside our own house. I’m tired of it.
So are we, Michael. So are we.
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