Jack Kingston: “Now, we are also about to consider an emergency budget for the military of about $3.4 billion. Of that, one-half of it…”

“Now, we are also about to consider an emergency budget for the military of about $3.4 billion. Of that, one-half of it is going to come from cutting existing programs. But then the other half of it has already been spent in Somalia, in Bosnia, in Rwanda, in Haiti, and actually going back to Iraq as well. One of the things that concerns me as we do some of this globe trotting and getting back to the Rangers and the Marines and so forth is that when we were in Somalia there was not a clear American peril, there was not a clear objective and there was not a clear mission, there was not a clear timeframe to achieve the mission nor a plan to get our personnel out. And if you are a service person going over there, then it is going to have to be a little bit discouraging. Even as loyal as I know that they are, it is very discouraging to realize they are doing these missions, and there is not a statement, there is not an objective. So I think in terms of the dollar, it is one thing. But the morale is another.”