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Issue Position: Afghanistan

Issue Position

Issues: National Security Defense Foreign Affairs

I love and support our troops, especially the 1,500 Vermont National Guard soldiers deployed to Afghanistan, and I'm against putting them in harm's way without a clear mission and strategy. I am not convinced we have either in Afghanistan, but I am convinced that native Afghan forces will never step up to protect their own homeland until our departure requires them to. Nation-building and counterinsurgency have not worked in Afghanistan to date and cost too many American lives. Meanwhile al-Qaeda gathers strength elsewhere, from Pakistan to Yemen.


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