Freshman Congressman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) is calling on President Obama to begin withdrawing American troops from Afghanistan:
Earlier this year, Chaffetz traveled to the region and said that, since then, he’s “become more engrossed in my conviction it is time to bring our troops home.”
“I am opposed to nation building, and I quite frankly don’t see or understand what victory looks like,” he said. “I believe, as most people do, that our military can do everything we want them to do. … But we’re asking them to fight a war that is not very well-defined. And we are asking them to do so with one hand tied behind their back.”
The GOP used to stand against foreign interventionism and nation building. Hopefully that sentiment will return now that Bush is out of office.
The irony I found in all of this is that President Obama is calling to send more troops to Afghanistan – and this is the same man that was awarded the Nobel PEACE Prize.