I often hear that the reason to continue to be in Afghanistan is the threat that al Qaeda and the Taliban will exploit the weak state to mount attacks on our Homeland.
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Addressing concerns about terrorism threats from Afghanistan.
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I continue to have deep concerns about how the school in particular was targeted, especially as the strike was deliberately planned for the first day of the conflict and did not occur amid the fog of war.
You’re asking for unlimited money for bombs when people can’t feed their families, and I don’t know how this administration intends to defend those decisions to the American people.
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To see them delayed is a dismissal of the rights and needs of people with disabilities.





