“American troops have been in Afghanistan for nearly 18 years, Iraq since 2003 and in Syria since 2015,' Senator Bernie Sanders said.
A group of eight congressional lawmakers have signed a pledge put forward by veterans to end the United States’ involvement in “forever war.”
“The United States has been in a state of continuous, global, open-ended military conflict since 2001. Over 2.5 million troops have fought in this ‘Forever War’ in over a dozen countries—including Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Jordan, Niger, Somalia, and Thailand,” reads the pledge signed by the lawmakers.
“We’re watching the Taliban govern areas [in Afghanistan] where we deployed, and where our friends died,” McCoy pointed out. “We’re watching Trump destabilize entire regions. We’re watching our friends who we served with now on their eighth and ninth deployments. We’re seeing our kids now will be old enough to enlist and having to have hard conversations about that,” he explained.
“I don’t really spend a lot of time with people who have engaged in war,” said Omar, who has been bold in her criticism of U.S. foreign policy since taking office in the House. “I suppose we’re all ultimately survivors and we all have to live with the aftermath of what took place. I had not really heard a clear perspective from people where we’re the ones with the guns.”
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