Louie Gohmert: “I am very grateful to my friend, Congressman Gaetz, for that insightful comment. The gentleman is right. When you are…”

“I am very grateful to my friend, Congressman Gaetz, for that insightful comment. The gentleman is right. When you are right, you are right. I would like to comment on something else that has been in the news, and that is the longest war in which the United States has ever been engaged. For a little history, it took a few weeks for the United States to find out where the training and preparation for 9/11 came from, and that the Taliban and Osama bin Laden were behind it. They had control of Afghanistan, the Taliban did. It was an amazing bit of negotiation by President Bush, with incredible help from intelligence and special operations. The special ops people from our military were able to negotiate an agreement with tribal leaders that ended up being called the Northern Alliance. It contained some people who have become friends, people who love their country. By October, we were putting in about 300 special ops military. There is a great book called ``Horse Soldiers'' that delves into this issue, and a movie, ``12 Strong,'' although the ending wasn't quite accurate. Our American forces were never to lead an operation. They were to support Dostum in his operations, which is what they did, heroically. By the end of February 2002, apparently, there was no organized Taliban left in Afghanistan. It had done an amazing job. The heroic fighting of those in the Northern Alliance, the Afghans led by General Dostum, did an amazing job. We provided some weapons.…”