CSPAN2 Key Capitol Hill Hearings December 24, 2013
Enabling [inaudible] its minds boggling howment of tens of billions dollars we have wasted in countries like iraq and afghanistan building while elephant projects of no earthly use and actually battling the insurgency. The Water Treatment plants. Im not sure why we were doing it. I think its something we call the gratitude theory of counterinsurgency. If you give them cool stuff, they will like. You a. If you give them cool stuff and not in control of the area, the other side claim credit for it. And so if you build stuff inside the city but dont control the city, guess what, they will claim i...