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Rand Paul: ‘Past time’ to leave Afghanistan, spend instead on US infrastructure
« on: May 09, 2018, 07:02:03 pm »
Rand Paul: ‘Past time’ to leave Afghanistan, spend instead on US infrastructure
by Paul Bedard
 | May 09, 2018 02:43 PM

Stunned anew by reports that waste and corruption in Afghanistan has consumed up to 50 percent of U.S. taxpayer spending there, Sen. Rand Paul on Wednesday called for a full U.S. withdrawal and a funding shift to America's infrastructure.

In a hearing where the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, John F. Sopko, listed wasteful projects and said the Taliban was taking over huge swaths of the nation, Paul said it is time to leave the war torn nation after 16 years.

“I have long been a critic of both our current lack of strategic mission in Afghanistan, and of the colossal waste of taxpayer dollars there. So recently, I sent a bipartisan fact-finding team, which included two of my senior staff to Afghanistan to see and observe first-hand,” said Paul of the team that included his Deputy Chief of Staff Sergio Gor and Gregory McNeill, majority staff director of Paul’s Federal Spending Oversight and Emergency Management Subcommittee for the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

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Re: Rand Paul: ‘Past time’ to leave Afghanistan, spend instead on US infrastructure
« Reply #1 on: May 09, 2018, 07:23:58 pm »
Leave, but maintain a powerful capability to attack them fast and hard from air and sea.
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Re: Rand Paul: ‘Past time’ to leave Afghanistan, spend instead on US infrastructure
« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2018, 02:25:23 am »
Quote from: truth_seeker on May 09, 2018, 07:23:58 pm
Leave, but maintain a powerful capability to attack them fast and hard from air and sea.

I would support that.
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Re: Rand Paul: ‘Past time’ to leave Afghanistan, spend instead on US infrastructure
« Reply #3 on: May 10, 2018, 02:39:57 am »
They've had plenty of time to train a domestic force.  This has been my feeling as to why we keep hanging around.


Rare Earth: Afghanistan Sits on $1 Trillion in Minerals

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/rare-earth-afghanistan-sits-1-trillion-minerals-n196861
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Re: Rand Paul: ‘Past time’ to leave Afghanistan, spend instead on US infrastructure
« Reply #4 on: May 10, 2018, 03:02:48 am »
George W. Bush had it right.  Leave a minimal force in Afghanistan to prevent a group such as the Taliban from taking over the government and using Afghanistan as a base to attack the US.  This policy was a huge success compared to the Soviet policy of the late 70s.  It required minimal investment, and it achieve the desired result.

Unfortunately, Obama discarded this policy soon after taking office in 2009, resulting in a huge increase in financial cost and a threefold increase in casualties.  Obama spent more money in Afghanistan than Bush spent in Iraq.
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Re: Rand Paul: ‘Past time’ to leave Afghanistan, spend instead on US infrastructure
« Reply #5 on: May 10, 2018, 03:17:05 am »
Heck, Afghanistan is being beaten as we speak to talk about leaving some minimal force, I think that is there already.
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Re: Rand Paul: ‘Past time’ to leave Afghanistan, spend instead on US infrastructure
« Reply #6 on: May 10, 2018, 03:17:51 am »
So, I think we may be in some of these places as we are in Korea, seemingly forever.
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Re: Rand Paul: ‘Past time’ to leave Afghanistan, spend instead on US infrastructure
« Reply #7 on: May 10, 2018, 03:35:06 am »
I'll be interested to see what happens as the China people develop a strong presence in Pakistan.  Would they consider moving into Afghanistan, too? 
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