Jim Risch actually said...

In order to follow up on this conversation we're having right now about China, can you give us some indication of what China's expenditures ...

I have a real difficulty in explaining to people back home in Idaho what we're doing spending billions of dollars in Pakistan.

Why are we spending our kids' and our grandkids' money to do this in a country that really doesn't like us?

It just doesn't make sense.