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Showing Original Post only (View all)STATEMENT FROM CHAIRMAN MENENDEZ FOLLOWING CLASSIFIED COMMITTEE BRIEFING ON AFGHANISTAN [View all]
I very much appreciated the Administrations willingness to provide our Committee with unvarnished facts about the future of U.S.-Afghan policy after a war that has gone on for a very long time and at great sacrifice by U.S. service members, our diplomats, and aid workers
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I share the Presidents desire to get our troops out of Afghanistan, but I continue to have concerns about our ability to protect the hard fought gains made for the rights of Afghan women and minorities, as well as our confidence level that Afghanistan will not again become a haven for terrorists. How we withdraw and what political arrangement is left in our wake is critically important.
Now that the President has made this decision, we need to come together to focus on the implications and chart a path forward that ensures we are not forced to send our troops back. As a follow-up to todays briefing, I will convene a full committee hearing in the coming weeks to further examine in an open setting the implications of a withdrawal for U.S. national security interests in the region, a full accounting of the diplomatic and development tools we have to pursue our interests, and what it will mean for the people of Afghanistan.
https://www.menendez.senate.gov/newsroom/press/statement-from-chairman-menendez-following-classified-committee-briefing-on-afghanistan
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STATEMENT FROM CHAIRMAN MENENDEZ FOLLOWING CLASSIFIED COMMITTEE BRIEFING ON AFGHANISTAN [View all]
Rustyeye77
Aug 2021
OP
If we haven't been able to "save" Afghanistan in 20 years then when will we?
totodeinhere
Aug 2021
#27
Your strategy will only work if we decide to stay in Afghanistan forever and if we decide
totodeinhere
Aug 2021
#24
A full committee hearing in the coming weeks sounds like it's too late, to me.
secondwind
Aug 2021
#13
It is not within our ability to "save" that country unless we decide to stay there forever.
totodeinhere
Aug 2021
#25