The House Democrat who oversees funding for Afghanistan’s redevelopment and reconstruction said on Monday that she is stripping money from her foreign aid bill in reaction to pervasive corruption. Dave Obey, chairman of the Appropriations Committee, supports the move made by subcommittee chairwoman Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.), according to an Obey spokesman.
Lowey cited pervasive corruption in Afghanistan as the cause for her decision to pull the funding from the appropriations bill working its way through her State and Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittee.
“I do not intend to appropriate one more dime for assistance to Afghanistan until I have confidence that U.S. taxpayer money is not being abused to line the pockets of corrupt Afghan government officials, drug lords and terrorists,” said Lowey.
Finally, a little common sense! There is no winning in Afghanistan so it’s time we stopped funneling all that money over there when our country is running huge deficits. Even if everything went perfectly and the Afghani government was able to stand on its own, that doesn’t accomplish a thing since the Karzai government is one of the most corrupt in the world — second only to Somalia!
That’s exactly how Democrats got us out of the war in Vietnam: they cut off funding.
DRUDGE RETORT 