Amerish Bera actually said...

"The presence of our troops there over this last decade has essentially been the driving force of Afghanistan's economy."

"I actually think it would be in our interest to have that as a multi-user facility."

"if you don't have that long-term plan, if you don't have that roadmap, how are we going to make the decisions"

"lack of mission clarity makes it much harder to make some of these decisions on what assets to keep"