Dana Rohrabacher: “Let us debate this issue honestly, Mr. Chairman. What are the parameters? Are we going to send troops everywhere where…”

“Let us debate this issue honestly, Mr. Chairman. What are the parameters? Are we going to send troops everywhere where genocide is committed? No, that is obviously not the case. Why then do we determine the Balkans is the case, when in Africa and other places around the world surely tens of thousands of people are dying in a similar fashion? No, in the Balkans, actually this should be the job of the Europeans. We are told, ``They won't do it.'' It is their job now that the Cold War is over. The United States of America shouldered its share of the burden for stability in the whole world in this century. In the First World War we went to Europe to save them. In the Second World War we fought the Japanese and the Nazis, and in the last four decades we have had to carry the burden of the Cold War. Yet we carried that and we carried it to victory and the world has a better chance for peace today. But it will not be a peace where Americans have to continue garrisoning the entire planet for the sake of stability. We must set the parameters or we will lose the peace because we have not been willing to meet the challenges that we can face. I ask for support for the Fowler amendment.”