Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) said on Fox News Sunday this morning that President Obama’s plan to send more troops to Afghanistan reminds him of the Vietnam war.
“Let’s don’t have talk of a phased deployment,” Kyl said. “We’ll send a few troops immediately, and then we’ll see what happens, see how it plays out, maybe send some more. That’s kind of reminiscent of Vietnam. That escalation, that slow escalation didn’t work there. You need to put in everybody you can as quickly as you can and deliver a knockout punch to the enemy.”
Kyl also said any talk of an exit strategy “is exactly the wrong way to go.”
We cannot leave until the mission’s accomplished and that’s a message we’ve got to send to our friends and our enemies alike.
Both Kyl and Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN) said on Fox News Sunday that they don’t support a plan to pay for the Afghan escalation with a surtax on Americans, something that’s been proposed by at least two Democrats.
“I don’t think it’s a good idea, not at this point,” Bayh said.
Kyl agreed: “This isn’t the time to be raising taxes.”
Late Update: Here’s the video.
