Another Pro-War Republican Says We Must “Surrender” in the Middle East

(NOTE:  That is what Bush-ites call it when Democrats want to withdraw troops from anywhere)

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Jon Fleischman Is Latest GOP Official To Criticize Afghan War

In a private email provided to the Huffington Post, a vice chairman of the California Republican Party questioned the value of continuing the 9-year war in Afghanistan in light of its heavy costs to American taxpayers.

Jon Fleischman, a political consultant and veteran GOP official in California, was writing in response to an op-ed calling on Michael Steele to resign as chairman of the Republican National Committee over his criticism of the war last week.

“For what it is worth, I’m an officer with the CA Republican Party and I can’t figure out what we are achieving in Afghanistan, at least not for the economic cost to US Taxpayers,” Fleischman wrote on Friday. “Since I am not particularly isolationist, it means my government is failing to communicate well.”

It is the latest evidence that the U.S. mission in Afghanistan, which once garnered near-universal support from Republicans, has now become a source of ideological dissension at the highest ranks of the party………