Congressman Bruce Braley says President Obama needs to outline an “exit strategy” for Afghanistan before he sends more American troops into that country.
Braley, a Democrat from Waterloo, cites the so-called “Powell Doctrine” — a list of questions devised by retired General Colin Powell before the U.S. entered the first Gulf War. It includes the question: do we have the support of the American people for this mission?
”It’s no different than the Powell Doctrine that we used before the first Gulf War,” Braley says. “You need to lay out of us what your exit strategy is before you ask us to send these Iowa National Guard members into harm’s way.”
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