[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 14711]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              AMERICA SHOULD STOP TRYING TO RUN THE WORLD

  (Mr. DUNCAN of Tennessee asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DUNCAN of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, Americans do not want, forever, 
permanent wars that last three or four times longer than World War II. 
And they especially do not want to spend hundreds of billions on people 
who hate or don't at least appreciate what we've done for them.
  Probably half the spending we have done over the years in Iraq and 
Afghanistan has been pure foreign aid. And we have poured many, many 
billions into Egypt, Pakistan, and other countries throughout the 
Middle East.
  Our own Nation is $16 trillion in debt. We are borrowing all this 
money to send to countries that are exploding with anti-American rage.
  Fifty-one American soldiers have been murdered over the past several 
months by Afghan police and soldiers who they were training. Now we 
have had our Ambassador and three other Americans killed in Libya.
  We should have gotten out of Afghanistan years ago. We need to get 
out now and not take too long to do it.
  We need to stop trying to run the whole world, creating so much 
resentment, and start putting our own country first once again.

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