Bill Delahunt: “I cannot agree more with the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Callahan). He is correct. The European Union has failed to meet…”

“I cannot agree more with the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Callahan). He is correct. The European Union has failed to meet its commitment. Let me also suggest that the Colombian Government in terms of professionalizing and providing the resources necessary for its own military has failed its people. During the course of World War II the American people paid 40 percent of the GDP to the war effort. In Colombia today it is less than 2 percent of the Colombian GDP that is devoted to the military. And I suggest that this is an absolute appropriate rationale for us not to appropriate additional funds until the Colombian and the Europeans stand up to the plate.”