[Peace-discuss] Coulter and Steele vs. the Neocons? Really?

[E.Wayne Johnson]

  Once in khaki suits, gee we looked swell, 
  Full of that Yankee Doodly Dumb...

  - (words, with apology to "Yip" Harburg)
Two news items seem to suggest that sentiment in the ruling class is turning against the War in Afghanistan.
I dont find that it is a sudden wave of compassionate consciousness bursting across their cortex.
In my opinion it has to do with money and the fact that the US is flat-on its-proverbial-ass-broke and 
can hardly find a "buddy" who can spare up a new "paradigm" for them.

Item 1:  Michael Steele will stay on as head of the RNC.  
  RNC confirms Michael Steele will remain chairman
  By Chris Moody - The Daily Caller   1:33 AM 07/07/2010 
   
  Despite numerous calls for his resignation over comments made criticizing the war effort in Afghanistan, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele will not step down, RNC spokesman Doug Heye confirmed Tuesday.   Steele will stay on as the head of the committee amid criticism from Senate Republicans who took to the airwaves over the weekend to condemn his comments that the war in Afghanistan could not be won. Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Jim DeMint and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina appeared on the Sunday talk shows to discuss the chairman's fate as leader of the Republican Party.

  Appearing on ABC's This Week on a live feed from Kabul, McCain called Steele's comments "wildly inaccurate" but stopped short of saying he should resign. "[Steele] is going to have to assess as to whether he can still lead the Republican Party as chairman of the Republican National Committee and make an appropriate decision," McCain said.  While traveling with McCain in Afghanistan, Graham called Steele's remarks an "uninformed, unnecessary, unwise, untimely comment" during an interview with Face the Nation on CBS. "This is not President Obama's war; this is America's war," he said.
  Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/07/07/rnc-confirms-michael-steele-will-remain-chairman/print/#ixzz0t5ZImkCV

but, Curiouser & Curiouser,  party shill Ann Coulter (???) chimes in with an attack on the slithy tove Bloody Bill Kristol.  Good for her.  Some of the things she is saying are weak, and others really dont jibe with her previous jabberwocky but apparently "it dont take a principled Weatherman to know" which way "the fresh wind is blowing against the empire".

Item #2:  Bill Kristol Must Resign.
  by Ann Coulter
  Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele was absolutely right. Afghanistan is Obama's war and, judging by other recent Democratic ventures in military affairs, isn't likely to turn out well....

  ...At this point, Afghanistan is every bit as much Obama's war as Vietnam was Lyndon Johnson's war. True, President Kennedy was the first to send troops to Vietnam. We had 16,000 troops in Vietnam when JFK was assassinated. Within four years, LBJ had sent 400,000 troops there.

  In the entire seven-year course of the Afghanistan war under Bush, from October 2001 to January 2009, 625 American soldiers were killed. In 18 short months, Obama has nearly doubled that number to 1,124 Americans killed.

  Republicans used to think seriously about deploying the military. President Eisenhower sent aid to South Vietnam, but said he could not "conceive of a greater tragedy" for America than getting heavily involved there...As Michael Steele correctly noted, every great power that's tried to stage an all-out war in Afghanistan has gotten its ass handed to it. Everyone knows it's not worth the trouble and resources to take a nation of rocks and brigands...

  ...Nonetheless, Bill Kristol and Liz Cheney have demanded that Steele resign as head of the RNC for saying Afghanistan is now Obama's war -- and a badly thought-out one at that. (Didn't liberals warn us that neoconservatives want permanent war?)

  I thought the irreducible requirements of Republicanism were being for life, small government and a strong national defense, but I guess permanent war is on the platter now, too.

  Of course, if Kristol is writing the rules for being a Republican, we're all going to have to get on board for amnesty and a "National Greatness Project," too - other Kristol ideas for the Republican Party. Also, John McCain. Kristol was an early backer of McCain for president -- and look how great that turned out!

  Inasmuch as demanding resignations is another new Republican position, here's mine: Bill Kristol and Liz Cheney must resign immediately.

  http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=37950
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