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Derrick Van Orden: “We've created own enemies. And so I'm wondering what…”

Featuring: Derrick Van Orden, Republican | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 3

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Congressional Discussion on Special Operations Forces Budget with General Fenton

Published | Video Starts at 02:21

And we have a proven track record of training people that we should not everything from the School of Americas in the 70s and you know, we trained the Taliban, armed them, equipped them, did all this stuff. We've created own enemies. And so I'm wondering what Percentage of the soft budget is used for the JSET programs. Well, I don't know that specific number off the top of my head, but we can get back. I would appreciate that tremendously. (02:21–02:30)

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Asserts that the U.S. has historically trained and armed groups that became adversaries, questioning the budget for JSET programs.

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