A cycle of stupidity

(updated below - Update II)

RNC Chairman Michael Steele today lashed out at President Obama by saying:  "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?"  Of course it's absurd for Steele to voice that criticism without mentioning that it is his own Party which started that war and waged it for 8 years -- as well as the fact that virtually every Congressional member of his Party...