Eight years after the war in Afghanistan began, there are mounting doubts on Capitol Hill as more and more members of Congress have begun to resist calls to escalate the American military commitment.  “What I think we need to do is, we need a national debate about what our goals are, what our exit strategy is, and I don't think the alternatives are simply pull out tomorrow, or put in tens of thousands of more troops," Senator Bernie Sanders said. He was interviewed by Chris Matthews on MSNBC on the same day that The Washington Post divulged a memo by Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, which cast the options in stark terms: more troops or "mission failure." Said Sanders,  "My fear is that we can get sucked into a quagmire like we did in Vietnam, like we did in Iraq. We have already lost over 700 troops. We have spent $200 billion. And you know what?  We have not, as a Congress, been clear about what our goal is in Afghanistan.  Originally, it was to capture Osama bin Laden. We did not do that, and now it presumably is to rebuild one of the poorest countries on earth, which is rampant with corruption.”

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