Thomas A. Garrett: “We are making progress at advancing human rights, religious freedom, and reducing their role in terror in the Republic…”

These promises of fairness manifest themselves in the uniform distribution of poverty and suffering.

I have implored my peers and superiors on this committee to remember the words of Arthur Vandenberg, that politics stop at the water's edge.

Perhaps have we considered a paradigm wherein we tie aid and development to Afghanistan to eradication efforts?

I will consider myself a historian and some lessons are written large on the pages of history, if we are only willing to listen.