Robert Menendez actually said...

If we do not do that, we are going to see enormous social unrest and we might as well turn the hemisphere over to authoritarian figures.

Iraq distracted our military, at least, from the mission in Afghanistan.

I think there was wasted time during the 20 years in trying to establish a more responsive government for the people of Afghanistan.

There seems to me that there could have been safeguards put in place to make sure that the aid that we gave went to the people and not just ...