Barney Frank: The New Mandate on Defense

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9. The U.S.

does not need all that military spending just to defend the United States. We are calling other things our interests, like nation building and spreading Democracy in places that never had it. Why should we pay for the army of Afghanistan and fight for them too? It has been ten to twelve years and our Generals, as well as the American media, claims these forces aren't even trained yet. Hell, it only took me 6-8 weeks to go through Basic training. And the mercenaries they are training, know how to fight better than some of our troops.

This installed President Karzai was one of the commanders of the groups fighting against the Taliban before the U.S. even invaded Afghanistan. These Generals, like Petraeus and McCrystal pulled the wool over the American peoples' faces and so are those in Government. Go back and see who assisted the U.S. when Afghanistan was originally invaded and the Taliban was kicked out. It was other Afghan fighting forces aligned with Karzai and a former leader that Bin Laden and the Taliban assasinated. So the idea these people are not trained and don't know how to fight is deceiving. The American public needs to start using some common sense. We need to get out of all these places and stop calling them our national interests. Especially with a country, that is the biggest nuclear power in the World. There is no country in the World can invade the U.S. and hold it.