GOP senators rip Afghanistan War: $1 trillion spent and ‘we cannot show any progress’

By Paul Bedard

Published February 12, 2020 8:39pm ET

GOP senators rip Afghanistan War: $1 trillion spent and ‘we cannot show any progress’ — President Donald Trump, center, and Army Chief of Staff Gen. James C. McConville, right of center, salute as an Army carry team moves a transfer case containing the remains of Sgt. 1st Class Antonio Rey Rodriguez, Monday, Feb. 10, 2020, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. According to the Department of Defense, Rodriguez, 28, of Las Cruces, N.M., died in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, of wounds sustained during combat operations.

Two key Republican senators, channeling President Trump, this week decried the continued U.S. presence in Afghanistan, arguing that, after 19 years, the goals are muddled, the costs in money and lives unjustifiably high, and the accomplishments unclear.

“I want to find a way to end the war,” said Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, a longtime opponent of the war.

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