Willl Grigg?s Liberty Minute

July 6, 2010

When he criticized the Obama administration?s recent escalation in Afghanistan, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele offended the entire War Party , which includes politicians and pundits from both sides of the narrow partisan divide who support an interventionist foreign policy.

Steele correctly noted that history illustrates the folly of getting involved in ?a land war in Afghanistan.? Steele could, and should, have expanded that criticism to include Obama?s predecessor, under whose reign the Afghan mission morphed from one of supposed retaliation for 9-11 into a full-blown nation-building exercise.

In 1843, British Army chaplain GR Gleig, one of the few survivors of England?s Afghan war, described that conflict as ?a war begun for no wise purpose, carried on with a strange mixture of rashness and timidity, brought to a close after much suffering and disaster ? [that yielded] Not one benefit?.? The same epitaph will be written for Washington?s misbegotten Afghan war.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.