Efforts in afghanistan. We will come to order. All members will have five days to submit statements to the record. Notice, we are here today to examine the lessons from americas war in afghanistan. , welcome general sopko to the Foreign Affairs committee. I look forward to learning the lessons of afghanistan, but also getting some input to what we should do in the future. Learning the lessons of afghanistan, but also getting some input to what we should do in the future. Afghanistanes in over the last six years have 10. Aged roughly we mourn those deaths and take them seriously. Compared to the other ,onflicts we are engaged in compared to the training deaths we suffer in our military, we cannot have the exhaustion of 10 years ago blind us to what is the operation now, and what is its cost. I know the chairman has an opening statement, but i will ,ecognize the Ranking Member then i will recognize our witness for his opening statement, and hopefully by then we will hear the chairmans st
Perhaps we shouldnt have. I think the days of occupying nations and reconstruction with the hope that jeffersonian democracy is going to plant seeds and roots, it may have been naive. Its a very primitive country, afghanistan. Ive been there many times. So my question, as i advise the president on syria, a residual force to protect the homeland, i dont think we can afford to stay in these countries forever and occupy them forever. I think the most important thing we can do is to have a residual force of some sort to take out terrorist threats to the homeland in a counterterrorism mission. Maybe we lost sight of what our mission was in the first place, and so i guess and i know youre not here to report on policy, per se, but id like your comments on dha, and to that end, what programs have been most effective at counterterrorism in that mission . Congressman, i think thats an excellent question, and i can bring you up to the line to policy. And i leave the policy for you. You have to re
Millions of ryall that he stole and he looks like hes going to finger some judges that were involved in this mass Corruption Case so this has been a problem of course stifling growth in this economy because of course with Foreign Direct Investment and other sort of investors they do get concerned that you have to pay off and this guy was paid off millions of dollars and cut kickbacks for you know allocating various contracts for example Building Infrastructure in rio right so is there an attempt to really crack down on the corruption and if so it could be like a court of Scotch Whisky moments remember during russias transition to a more free market. Country they got rid of the oligarchs are trying to get rid of the oligarchs and course coffee was a high profile example that this could be similar there are dozens and dozens and dozens and dozens of people its not just this guy was a politician so theyre cracking down on politicians and the politicians receiving that kickbacks from major
Trump tweeting this out without informing him 1st yeah he was totally in shock with those tariffs that were applied and thats the world of trumps of also don is to get with the program i also want to say like when we arrived at the airport here in Rio De Janeiro it like 3 in the afternoon i was surprised that we route literally the only 2 in the immigration line quite a few behind us had you know gone through the International Transfer line but nevertheless it was much quieter than i thought it would be i expected like boomtown this is a Southern Hemisphere for their summer are winter up north i thought it would be more people here more tourists and something that i wasnt sure where that was about but it was quite shocking yeah i was shocked to learn that actually in Rio De Janeiro its not really a big boom we touristy place and that would be an area of potential growth right i mean its very famous people the idea of coming to rio and on the beach and all this stuff is very in peoples
The only 2 in the immigration line quite a few behind us had you know gone through the International Transfer line but nevertheless it was much quieter than i thought it would be i expected like boomtown this is a Southern Hemisphere for their summer are winter up north i thought it would be more people here more tourists and something that i wasnt sure where that was about but it was quite shocking yeah i was shocked to learn that actually in Rio De Janeiro its not really a big boom he tours the place and that would be an area of potential growth right i mean its very famous people the idea of coming to rio and on the beach and all this stuff is very in peoples minds and they would dream of coming here but in fact the Tourism Industry is not really work could be due to a certain lack of infrastructure etc so that could be an area of big growth it could also be all the headlines in the news about the violence throughout rio it is one of the deadliest i believe the deadliest states of b