First, Steele is in there because the GOP needed to show “See? we have a black leader too”. He’s the affirmative action GOP leader.
That being said, he is correct in his assessment about Afghanistan. It’s a waste to remain there, in lives and in money. Our initial mission was to go there get Bin Laden and the Al Qaida leadership and get out. Instead Bush broke his campaign promise that he would out engage in nation building. We will have achieved nothing. As soon as we leave the rats will take over the place and control it just as they had before we got there. We ought to concentrate on the original mission, target the leadership of the Taliban and Al Qaida, kill them all and get the hell out of there. Give the Pakis 72 hours to round up our list and turn them over to us or we nuke their major cities. Of course that’s a fantasy. In an ideal world that is exactly what we should do. But we have become too civilized for war.
We also need to be clear on one thing. We are at war with Islam in it’s entirety. The whole religion needs to be wiped out. They need to be shown they believe in a failed belief system. It gives them no power, does not raise the standard of living and will not let the survive in the modern world. Islam is our enemy, Bin laden was merely a symptom of the disease. The sooner we admit this and realize it the better.
All of islam, especially the Saudi's.