Sen. Tom Cotton: Learn From Iraq, Do Not Abandon Afghanistan

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The Daily Caller:

Jude Abeler

2/5/15

 

WASHINGTON — Freshman Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton urged President Barack Obama and others to rethink the United States’ approach toward Afghanistan in a speech Thursday at the United States Institute of Peace.

 

“If we proceed on the president’s proposed withdrawal plan, we are apt to see the same kind of disaster replayed in Afghanistan as we are seeing today in Iraq and in Syria,” said Cotton, a former U.S. Army captain who served in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

 

He emphasized that many slow and steady gains have been made in areas like health care, corruption, and restoring hope and dignity to the people over the last 14 years, but that those improvements don’t typically get reported by the media.

 

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