Mitch Landrieu: “The issue is not whether we can stay and finish the job. Obviously, we have to do that, for any number of reasons, for…”

“The issue is not whether we can stay and finish the job. Obviously, we have to do that, for any number of reasons, for our own security, for the stability of the region. We are a powerful nation that makes promises and keeps promises. That is not the question. The question is, How should we pay for it? This administration has basically said it is our way or the highway: no loans, no modification of the tax cut, and no oil revenues can be used. The President is telling the American people, and the Republican leadership is saying to the American people, basically, that there is only one way to pay for this, and it is to dig deeper into our own basic deficit: borrow against our children's trust funds, borrow against paying for schools, hospitals, or colleges, and pay for it by increasing the deficit to our children and grandchildren. Some of us are saying there is a better way.”