Dana Rohrabacher: “it all comes down to this. Those people who are supporting the resolution of the gentleman from California (Mr.…”

“it all comes down to this. Those people who are supporting the resolution of the gentleman from California (Mr. Campbell) believe that the President of the United States should not be able to send our troops all over the world in open-ended commitments unless Congress has some vote on it. The people who are opposing the Campbell amendment have the opposite opinion. Let us note that this conflict that we are talking about today was a long time in coming. For years, many of us in this body shouted to the heavens to try to end what was an immoral arms embargo which prevented the victims of aggression in the Balkans from defending themselves. Those people who maintained this embargo which left the aggressors with all the weapons, those are the same people who now say and told us and came to us, ``We have to send U.S. troops.'' They got what they wanted. What they wanted was not victims being able to defend themselves, helped by the United States to defend themselves, but instead American troops committed on the ground in what is an endless commitment and an endless drain on our resources. American troops, committed to the Balkans, sets a precedent. That means they can be sent everywhere in order to solve all the problems in all the trouble spots, that our troops are now subservient to international interests rather than to national interests. That is what we are seeing, an evolution in the policy. I think that policy is wrong.…”