Reacting to the news that Afghan president Hamid Karzai believes the U.S. government is behind the latest series of Taliban attacks, Sen. Paul rebuked the comments as “disrespectful” and “troubling.”
“We’re asked to send our young men and women over there to lose their lives and we’re treated with disrespect by our allies, so find it very troubling,” he told host Wolf Blitzer.
He then called for an end to the war in Afghanistan: “I think we’ve accomplished our goals there. We got [Osama] bin Laden. We disrupted the Taliban that was harboring him. We disrupted the government that was harboring him. I think we’ve achieved our goals, and I think it is time to come home.”
Asked what sort of withdrawal schedule he desires, the libertarian-leaning senator flatly said, “We’ve been there nearly 12 years. I think it’s time to come home,” adding that an expedited timetable would have to be formed in conjunction with the generals involved in the process.
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