Peter Visclosky: “I appreciate the gentleman for yielding and would associate myself with his comments. I do appreciate the gentleman's…”

“I appreciate the gentleman for yielding and would associate myself with his comments. I do appreciate the gentleman's concern. The money spent in Afghanistan ought to be spent carefully and efficiently and we ought to have an investment made for those expenditures. But I harken back to the last debate we had when we did abandon this country in 1989, and as a result, that region of the world gave us the Taliban and al Qaeda. I don't want to take that type of chance. And simply because we have failed ourselves in this country by a failure to invest in our infrastructure, I do not believe this is the time to fail the Afghan people. I do associate myself with the gentleman's remarks and am opposed to the amendment. I appreciate the gentleman for yielding.”