Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) believes “the United States should get out of the conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya as soon as possible,” the Charleston Gazette reports.
During a visit to the Gazette on Tuesday, Rockefeller also criticized the way military appropriations are often approved as part of "supplementary" budget legislation, hiding them from the public.
"The military budget needs to come under new scrutiny. When I voted for the Iraq War, it was one of the worst votes in my life," Rockefeller said.
"Today, I have grave misgivings about being in Iraq for another week. We should be out of Iraq this year altogether," he said. "We are not going to win. It is not in the cards. Many Asian countries have a totally tribal culture.
"It is the same thing in Afghanistan, Libya and Yemen," Rockefeller said.
"I didn’t object to four days of bombing in Libya. But now the CIA is on the ground. That makes me nervous. I don’t have any patience with the Libyan endeavor," Rockefeller said.
"Libya makes no sense to me. I don’t think we should be there at all. We should get out of there and we should get out of Afghanistan. We can’t win there. We can’t change the country….
"Do you want three failed wars in a row? I don’t want to be in those places. And it has a great deal to do with the [federal] budget."
Rockefeller is a senior member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
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This is the most straightforward assessment I have read. If all statesmen can be so clear and succinct, we’d be in a better place today.
There is no time to waste.
If the us wanst to retain global dominance, they can do so only by occupying oil and mineral rich regions of the world. Manufacturing is almost finished in the us, the population is aging and the only way to prevent a gradual collapse of the economy is to expand and conquor..the senator is an idiot.
Ohh my are you not a twisted one??