I wrote to President Trump, had it delivered on July the 18th. I wanted him, if he was going raise the troop levels in Afghanistan, to please come to Congress, ask Congress to meet its constitutional responsibility and have a debate.
Jones urges Trump to consult Congress before raising troop levels in Afghanistan.
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Mr. President, I agree with those remarks and so does the 31st Commandant of the Marine Corps, my friend and unofficial adviser, General Chuck Krulak. As he said in a recent email to me, no one has ever conquered Afghanistan, and many have…
I think we owe them, based on our constitutional responsibility, after 16 years, to review where we are in Afghanistan.
Why do we in Congress keep increasing the budget? I am all for the warfighter. He or she deserves whatever we can give them.
I want to talk about the graveyard of empires. I think that is what they say about Afghanistan and the history of Afghanistan.
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