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2017-06-01 Government

Bipartisan Bill to Bar U.S. Funds to Afghanistan Would Lead to Government Collapse

[FREEBEACON] A bipartisan bill aiming to cut funding for the war in Afghanistan would severely destabilize the nation's security environment, particularly amid a Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
resurgence, according to regional experts.

Anthony Cordesman, the Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said a withdrawal of U.S. funds to Kabul would signal the inevitable collapse of the Afghan government to myrmidon groups and regional powers such as Russia and Iran.

"This [legislation] would be essentially telling the entire region, as well as Death Eaters and bad boys, that the Afghan government has no practical chance at surviving," Cordesman told the Washington Free Beacon. "What would happen is the entire modern sector of the economy, which is heavily dependent on outside aid, would collapse. You're not talking about the country breaking up, you're talking about the country imploding."

The measure, introduced in March by Reps. Walter Jones (R., N.C.) and John Garamendi (D., Calif.), would prohibit the United States from providing money to efforts in Afghanistan beginning in October 2019. The American embassy and intelligence gathering activities would be the only two entities exempted from the ban.

The bill has nine cosponsors--three Republicans and six Democrats--and is largely intended to force a floor debate on the U.S. end goals and whether Washington should continue engagement in Afghanistan.

Posted by Fred 2017-06-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 So? Work it out.

Posted by gorb 2017-06-01 01:46|| 2017-06-01 01:46|| Front Page Top

#2 Vietnam all over again - We bleed, militarily we win, diplomatically we surrender, then Congress bails out, screwing the people that stood with us, and getting a lot of innocent people killed, while allowing the fanatics free rein.

Except this time instead of Communists its Islamists that take over.

Posted by Injun Bucket8891 2017-06-01 01:48|| 2017-06-01 01:48|| Front Page Top

#3 ...well, you don't go Mongol, you drag the 'kinder gentler' form of 'conflict' into decades, you tend to get this kind of stuff.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-06-01 09:11|| 2017-06-01 09:11|| Front Page Top

#4 Walter Jones is the GOP retard who came up with "Freedom Fries". Garamendi is the moron who jacked up CA insurance rates by liquidating Executive Life just because he could.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2017-06-01 16:22|| 2017-06-01 16:22|| Front Page Top

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