Jeff Sessions is a Republican from Alabama: "This legislation may have a great vision, it may have a great idea about trying to make the system work better.

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And if we want this, then we have to make sure that Afghanistan has its own security infrastructure, that that system is there and we want to help build it,".

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"I can understand that people who actually lived at that time, in the communist era, who were hurt by this system it might upset them to see young people who might have basically no knowledge about this system and didn't live in that, wearing the symbols they don't understand.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

to say 'get real.' What is dangerous is to commit "This is extraordinary, to spend a whole lot of money that we might not have on a system that most certainly won't help when the world is changing, when we're facing new threats, where now more and more military experts are saying there are different alternatives."

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