Dana Rohrabacher

I don't see where we are any different than the structure that we have set up, a centralized structure...

The United States is going to stay the course in Afghanistan so that we don't make mistakes that we made after the last time we were working in that part of the world.

I think it is important that we hold the Afghans accountable to a high standard, but it has to be an achievable standard.

We have been in Afghanistan now for close to 10 years

I personally would question whether we should be tied into or not

Where did that contract come from?

Okay. So you didn't have anything directly involved with the Kabul Bank, but you did provide a grant to Deloitte to do its job, which was partially to oversee banks in Afghanistan, and Kabul Bank happened to be the biggest one?

How is it that when we have such a prestigious accounting firm on the premises, and we have American Government officials directly involved with running accounts through the bank, that the bank can just go belly-up like this and there is…

I think that basically if we have a system that still functions and permits people such leeway as we have just been mentioning, shame on us, not shame on them.

I happen to know the Afghan people, and I know that there is among a large segment of Afghan people, a great deal of not only respect, but a gratitude and a love in their hearts for the American people.

I will never forget that because at the same time these guys--there was a lot of people who were--these guys were aiding and treating the men who were coming right out of the combat zone, and here they were, understanding that all of this…

Okay. Your list of things for which we can be proud of, and let me just suggest that shortly after the liberation...

We have just agreed we are going to try to do it?

I can understand why the American people would be horrified if they found out how loose we have been with their money.

I personally resent that the Iraqi people do not--are not grateful to us for relieving them of the oppression of Saddam Hussein.

I would hope that that is not what we do in Afghanistan, but it appears that we have had this same type of attitude.

And you know what? I don't think we ever did crack down on that. And I think that was one of the factors that put us in a situation that when we left, we left in disgrace in Vietnam.

I am looking for a figure. How much in civilian aid have we given Afghanistan since the liberation from the Taliban?

I have long been concerned about this problem, because the U.S. has unwisely bet everything on Hamid Karzai.

So $90 billion in actual foreign aid, or American aid, not American military aid, but sort of, we are talking about, you know, economic.

We have an illegitimate and irresponsible government because of Karzai and his family.

Ten years of his rule has left the country teetering on the brink of collapse.

Now, of course, we know people who stick their head up and sue people, but at least in Russia and China, that doesn't happen unless the government really wants them to.

We are actually not taking responsibility off their shoulders. We are just sort of making sure that it is not such a great threat that nobody wants to participate.

But up until $500 million the company would have to pay itself, so the company is not off the hook.