Rep. John Duncan: No Conservative Should Support Staying in Afghanistan
Rep. Duncan has long made the case that true conservatives should not support massive and endless military adventurism overseas. Eight years ago, he wrote:
Conservatives who oppose big government and huge deficit spending at home should not support it in foreign countries just because it is being done by our biggest bureaucracy, the Defense Department. We have now spent $1.5 trillion that we did not have -- that we had to borrow -- in Iraq and Afghanistan.Sadly, Rep. Duncan could have simply re-read that statement today, as aside from the numbers not much has changed since 2009. Certainly "victory" is no closer today than it was back then.
Rep. Duncan expressed regret at the meaninglessness of the ongoing wars in his statement to the Committee today, adding that, "It's very sad that we have allowed all these trillions of dollars to be spent and all those lives that have been lost needlessly."
Watch the statement below:
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