07/27/2011
https://www.congress.gov...
"the purpose of war is to build a better peace, but America built nothing in Afghanistan after the Soviet withdrawal."
"It is well past time for a different approach."
"The development of a state that is able to provide a modicum of security and governance to its people is necessary to ensure that American security interests will be preserved without a major U.S. gro..."
"We left Afghanistan in 2003. We spent almost as much money in Iraq in 2008 as we spent in Afghanistan from 2003-2008."