Michael Vizzini Steele, Ctd

Steele has already attempted to walk back the remarks. Larison sees Steele's criticism of Afghanistan as a failed attempt to play politics:

Steele evidently believes that Afghanistan is now a politicalliability for Obama, and he wants to take advantage of this, but farfrom being a potential "turning point"it is just another example of how clueless and hopeless Steele is whenit comes to serving in a leadership capacity for Republicans. I canhardly wait to hear how Steele's cynical posturing...