Brian Jones: “It is ironic because many of us in the House of Representatives do think and would agree with the Taliban: It is time to…”

“It is ironic because many of us in the House of Representatives do think and would agree with the Taliban: It is time to rethink the policy in Afghanistan. Mr. Speaker, I must have at least 35 or 40 posters that I have been using on the floor of the House for the last number of years. This one is of a woman who lost her husband, in tears, and the little baby girl sitting in her lap. She doesn't know why there is a man in a uniform kneeling before her mother with a folded flag. There is just so much that we are missing as Members of Congress because we won't debate the war in Afghanistan. Afghanistan is a graveyard of empires. I think one day that Afghan graveyard is going to have a headstone that says, ``USA,'' because we are going broke trying to fix a country that couldn't care less about our values and our system. But that is the way it works around here. You can't even get a debate on sending young men and women to die for this country. Mr. Speaker, I ask Mr. Ryan to please let us have this debate. Members of Congress in both parties want to debate. You can vote for staying in Afghanistan, or you can vote for getting out of Afghanistan, but let us meet our constitutional responsibility. I ask God to bless our men and women in uniform, and God to bless America. ____________________”