in afghanistan for another decade, and this is what we've been warning about for some time on this show, america sleeps. >> we're not really even as a nation discussing it anymore. the subject of afghanistan is sort of off the table. >> in the meantime, china is spending billions of dollars mining afghanistan's precious mineral reserves. while we're spending hundreds of billions of dollars prosecuting an unwinnable war. who do you think is going to be the winner? >> and, while we have been pursuing these wars over the past decade, while we have been sending young men and women to foreign lands to die, china has been using that decade to gain strategic alliances in latin america, and africa, across the globe. we are -- every day we stay in afghanistan, every day, ford, that we stay in iraq, is a day that we damage america's future. it is not a close call. >> we have to now reconvene and have that conversation. >> representative ron paul, very