Kudos Barbara Lee
House liberals float bill to bar troop ‘surge’
Nearly two dozen House liberals have signed onto a bill introduced this past week that would prohibit an increase of troops in Afghanistan.
A bill introduced by Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) on Thursday would bar funding to increase the troop level in Afghanistan beyond its current level.
Lee and 21 lawmakers – largely from the liberal Congressional Progressive Caucus – introduced the bill, H.R. 3699 on Thursday.
The legislation comes as President Barack Obama and leaders in Congress weigh a request from Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the commander of troops in Afghanistan, for as many as 40,000 new troops to bolster the eight-year-long military engagement in the region.
“History tells us that there will not be a military-first solution to the situation in Afghanistan,” Lee told the Redding News Review. “Open-ended military intervention in Afghanistan is not in our national security interest and will only continue to give resonance to insurgent recruiters painting pictures of foreign occupation to a new generation.”</em>
We have no business there, we won’t “win” there, and we cannot economically or morally afford to be there.
Kudos Barbara Lee.
