McCaskill Tells U.S. General: Afghan War Funds Should Come Back to U.S.

At a Senate confirmation hearing today, U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill told the nominee to serve as Commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan that U.S. taxpayer-funded infrastructure funding for Afghanistan should be brought home.

"We need to ensure that come 2014, we don't have a situation where we are withdrawing our troops but we're leaving billions of dollars of contract work on the ground for infrastructure—money that should be spent on infrastructure here at home," McCaskill, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told General Joseph F. Dunford. "I really think it's time for you all to do a gut-check about our strategy as it relates to nation-building. We can call it other things, but let's be honest: we're trying to nation-build in the middle of fighting."

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