{"id":29135,"date":"2017-06-06T08:32:35","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T16:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=29135"},"modified":"2017-06-06T08:32:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T16:32:35","slug":"rep-walter-jones-to-congress-stop-funding-afghan-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/06\/rep-walter-jones-to-congress-stop-funding-afghan-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Walter Jones to Congress: Stop Funding Afghan War!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rep. Walter Jones, Jr. (R-NC) has looked at war from both sides. As he has readily shared with us, he was hoodwinked by the US intelligence community in the run-up to the Iraq war. He attended the briefings and he trusted the "professionals." As the neocon promised "cakewalk" turned out to be a slaughterhouse, he began to think hard about what he had been told about Iraq and terrorism and 9\/11.<\/p>\n

He soon realized it was all a fake. He became one of the most important conservative opponents of the wars for the US empire. How many conservatives did his passionate commitment to truth turn against the war? Scores. <\/p>\n

Rep. Jones now is convinced that we must end the 16 year US war on Afghanistan. In a recent interview with PJ Media<\/a>, he pulled no punches in outlining his opposition to the expected Trump Administration military escalation – "surge 3.0" – in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

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Said Rep. Jones:<\/p>\n

I’m absolutely opposed to [the planned US military escalation], because if you increase the number of American troops that means the number of Americans to be killed and wounded goes up. And again, I come back to the point, what have we accomplished? We spent over $800 billion dollars. We are very close to $1 trillion in the past 16 years.<\/i><\/p>\n

Jones has introduced legislation, HR 1666, which would “prohibit funds for activities in Afghanistan.” This is the only way we will see an end to the idiotic and slow-motion disaster called "US intervention in Afghanistan." <\/p>\n

Though the US Congressman stands behind his 2001 vote to go into Afghanistan to pursue those who might have been behind the 9\/11 attacks, he now realizes that that era has passed and that there is no compelling US national security interest in endlessly prolonging this war.<\/p>\n

Let us hope – and help – that the Congressman (who is a Ron Paul Institute Board Member) gains some traction with this important piece of legislation. Only the grassroots can pressure Congressmen to co-sponsor and push this legislation through. But it is eminently do-able! <\/p>\n

Daniel McAdams is director of the The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity<\/a>. Reprinted from The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rep. Walter Jones, Jr. (R-NC) has looked at war from both sides. As he has readily shared with us, he was hoodwinked by the US intelligence community in the run-up to the Iraq war. He attended the briefings and he trusted the "professionals." As the neocon promised "cakewalk" turned out to be a slaughterhouse, he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":241,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-29135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29137,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29135\/revisions\/29137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29135"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=29135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}