[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 45 (Monday, March 19, 2012)]
[House]
[Page H1369]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        IT'S TIME TO ACCELERATE OUR WITHDRAWAL FROM AFGHANISTAN

  (Mr. MORAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MORAN. Madam Speaker, the time to accelerate our withdrawal from 
Afghanistan has arrived. Afghanistan has very little to do with the 
security of most Americans. Osama bin Laden is dead, and al Qaeda is 
decimated. In fact, there may be 50, at the most, al Qaeda between 
Afghanistan and Pakistan. There are more in other parts of the world. 
But the reality is that the Afghans don't want people from Saudi Arabia 
or Egypt or Yemen or wherever telling them what to do. But neither do 
they want Americans telling them how to live their lives.
  But while our security is not threatened, we owe a responsibility to 
our brave young men and women in uniform because their security is 
threatened, largely through reasons that were wholly out of their 
control. They're waging a valiant fight to do what we have asked them 
to do, but we have a responsibility to make sure that no lives are lost 
in vain. It's time to accelerate our withdrawal from Afghanistan.

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