Reply #69: Do you mean de-funding the war as a means of forcing the

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administration to withdraw? There aren't the votes to do that and it's a clumsy and dangerous approach to dry up supplies for those in the field.

If you mean just voting to de-fund the war with no hope of actually accomplishing anything, I'm not quite sure I see the point of that.

I'm essentially a pragmatist, not some nutcase. What's done is done. So you deal with what you have. Keep your people fully supplied and functioning at the highest level of safety until such a time as they can be withdrawn with as little risk of loss as possible. That's just basic stuff.