Political Quotes

“let me just suggest to the Members that are listening, the President said that we should withdraw our forces in December 1996. The Hilleary amendment says that they can be there until December 1997. And at that point in time, our allies will assume the additional burden of patrolling the streets of the communities in Bosnia. We worked with them for 50 years to stop the advance of the Soviet military and an invasion of Europe. Surely they can in fact keep the peace and patrol the streets. If they have difficulty, we will help them, not with our soldiers but with all of our technical expertise and all of the logistics. I look at the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Murtha] who has been in the Chamber longer than I have, but I have been here now for 15 years, and I want to tell my colleagues when the U.S. military gets in trouble is when we send our troops into a circumstance that is not clear and a mission that is fuzzy and a mission that confuses the nature of what the mission is for our soldiers. We have done our job. We went to separate the warring parties and we did it. It is not our job to build the infrastructure and the Government of Bosnia. We will not be successful in that.…”