[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 91 (Tuesday, June 6, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H5612]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


  AMERICA'S MILITARY ADVENTURES WASTE BILLIONS AND ENDANGER OUR ARMED 
                                 FORCES

  (Mr. DUNCAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DUNCAN. Mr. Speaker, the American people are getting sick and 
tired of our leaders taking this Nation on military adventures around 
the world and wasting billions in the process.
  I am talking about spending billions in Haiti, Rwanda, Somalia, and 
other places, and now Bosnia. There is no vital United States interest 
in Bosnia. There is no threat to our security there.
  We should not send young American men and women to fight in foreign 
countries unless there is a definite and strong U.S. interest in doing 
so or there is a real threat to our national security.
  All Americans support sending some humanitarian aid to help out when 
international tragedies occur.
  But, we cannot continue to try to solve every world problem. We will 
bankrupt our own Nation if we are not careful. We certainly should not 
be getting into all sorts of international situations just so our 
Presidents can prove they are world leaders or make names for 
themselves in history.
  We should be friends with any nation that will let us, but we need to 
stop trying to buy friendships.
  We need to use more common sense, Mr. Speaker, and stop letting 
people all over this world take advantage of us and especially of our 
very limited national resources.

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