José E. Serrano: “Personally, anyone who has followed me during these 10 years that I have been in Congress knows that I am very outspoken…”

“Personally, anyone who has followed me during these 10 years that I have been in Congress knows that I am very outspoken on my country being involved in military activities throughout the world. On many occasions, when we have been involved in the last 10 years, I have spoken against it because I have questioned what we were doing in certain places. Secondly, I, as the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Obey) and so many of us do, recognize that the world has changed in such a way where we are truly the last strong standing superpower. So with that comes a responsibility, in my opinion; and the responsibility is especially what we have been doing the last few years throughout the world, and that is joining other countries in peacekeeping operations. I can see no better way to use our military forces than in attempting to keep the peace rather than engaging in war.”