Patricia Schroeder: “I rise in support of the Hamilton amendment. I think it is the correct one. But listen to the coalition here. The…”

“I rise in support of the Hamilton amendment. I think it is the correct one. But listen to the coalition here. The gentleman from South Carolina [Mr. Spence] and the gentleman from California [Mr. Dellums] agree on this. Why do they agree on this? Be very careful. It sounds wonderful to say we are going to lift the embargo, but to do that, we are doing that unilaterally, whereas we put the embargo on with our allies. And they are going to shake their head and say, there they go again, acting like the Lone Ranger. The Hamilton amendment goes at it the right way. It says that the President should work to get the United Nations to raise the embargo the United Nations put on. The other piece of this scares me a lot, too. There is $200 million in there this time for trainers. But in the Vietnam war they were often called advisers. Once you get people in doing this, it is very easy to keep pulling and pulling and pulling more folks into that war. I hope that we start thinking, in this post-cold-war period, about how we are going to interact with our allies.”