Video: Jim Holt Calls For a Pull Out of U.S. Troops
I caught up with Jim Holt today as he was filing for U.S. Senator at the state capitol, becoming the eighth Republican to do so. I asked him about a statement he made to KTHV a couple weeks ago where he said on the U.S. foreign policy, “To this point, I have not seen a clearly defined objective and if we do not have a clearly defined objective we need to get out, point blank.”
“I am a veteran and I don’t like politicians playing with our soldiers lives,” explained Holt. “Someone asked for 60,000 troops…and we give them 30,000 and then we say that no matter what happens we are going to pull out within a certain time frame. So what is that telling the enemy? That is telling the enemy that we are going to stay here, they are going to hunker down and they will pick us off.”
“It is just not logical to go in without an exit strategy, without a clearly defined objective,” continued Holt. “And that is what we have to have, if not, then we don’t need to be there. We don’t need to nation build. We don’t need a police state.”
When asked if he feels we should pull our troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan, he said, “If don’t have a clearly defined objective, Yes. If we are going to win the war of terror, let’s win it, and then let’s get back home. Let’s don’t keep them over there as sitting ducks telling the enemy how long we are going to be there.”
Tags: 2010 Candidates
March 8th, 2010 at 7:54 pm
*shakes head* When will this creep go away?
March 8th, 2010 at 8:25 pm
Indulge me in quoting Tom Cruise in Lions for Lambs.
“Senator Jasper Irving: OK, let’s play this out, we walk and Afghanistan reverts back to the Taliban. Only now the Taliban has metastisized into something infinitely more vicious and potent because they are now 2-0 against superpowers. They butcher the people that helped us, who voted, and were stupid enough to put their faith in our word. So call it not only the end of hope for tens of millions of Afghans, but the end of American credibility, the end of America as a voice of Righteousness in the world. And when we are forced to go back in a couple years, we will be faced against a shattered Iraq, a hopeless Afghanistan and a nuclear Iran. How many troops are we going to need then? I guarantee you will be adding some zeros.”
March 8th, 2010 at 10:04 pm
Never LibertyBell. He doesn’t have the ability to make it in the public sector. Just look at how he made ends meet when he wasn’t in politics. He has been a janitor and a day laborer.
March 9th, 2010 at 7:07 pm
Congrats, Jim! You officially now agree with Obama and that loon Ron Paul! You must be proud.
March 11th, 2010 at 4:15 pm
Can’t believe I’m defending this guy but he is right. We need to fight war the right way or leave.