Brian Jones: “The war in Afghanistan continues to prove to be an impossible task. Enough is enough. America is spending $7 billion a…”

“The war in Afghanistan continues to prove to be an impossible task. Enough is enough. America is spending $7 billion a month on the war. To break it down further, that is approximately $233 million a day on the war, with no end to it at all. Madam Speaker, to reset our equipment alone will cost in excess of $13 billion, just to bring it back to the same position it was prior to going into Iraq and Afghanistan. It is impossible to absorb this amount of money, particularly with the debt this country has and the fact that we can't even pay our own bills without borrowing money from China, Japan, and the UAE. Yesterday in an article in The Washington Post, Afghan President Karzai stated that he 'now had three enemies: the Taliban, the United States, the international community.' He also said in The Washington Post article that if he had to choose sides, he would choose the Taliban. This is what our young men and women are dying for. Madam Speaker, I have on the floor with me today a photograph taken of the Air Force Honor Guard at Dover Air Force Base, escorting the remains of an American hero off the plane. Madam Speaker, this is just not worth the cost of our young men and women dying, and it's not worth the cost that it is costing the taxpayers.”