WATCH: Matt Gaetz talks about US involvement in Afghanistan and its consequences

"The great coach Vince Lombardi said, 'winning is habit.' Unfortunately, So is losing. the United States has made habit of losing regime change wars," Gaetz said.

"Serious nations and responsible leaders learn from a loss. The question after Afghanistan is: will we rule America? We are withdrawing from the 'graveyard of empires,' the Taliban will regain total control of the country," Gaetz said.

"It is just a matter of time, the temporary victories that military officers and politicians have been telling you about will be reversed. No intelligent person doubts this."

"Afghanistan's withdrawal is a lot like ending a bad romantic relationship after investing way too much time, emotion and energy just to make things work. Sometimes, you just have to go."

"The corrupt Afghan government and military leaders that we've backed, they will crumble and flee Afghanistan with whatever money they can steal. There's even legislation in Congress to let any person who benefited off of the US funded corruption immigrate here right to the front of the line, one final golden parachute."

"We have lost 2,442 of our fellow Americans. According to the cost-of-war project at Brown University, the United States federal government has spent over $2 trillion dollars."

"Additionally, over 71,000 civilians over 78,000 Afghan military and police and over 84,000 opposition fighters have died. I mean, you're talking nearly a quarter of a million people off the planet Earth. And now the Taliban is in better position than ever before. This is what failure looks like."

"Turns out we didn't know much about Afghanistan when we invaded. My fiancee will not travel to a restaurant for dinner without reading the menus and reviews online first, so just maybe before invading a country, a quick Yelp check."

"Disorganized barbarians living in caves who are constantly warring and totally ungovernable, quite a handful even before someone gave them Stinger missiles, signed: Russia."

"A land of tough terrain, where are women and children were kidnapped by warring tribes. Some of them were forced to marry their captors. The mountains are pretty though, signed: Great Britain. "

Gaetz said that Americans "...were lied to endlessly by generals acting like politicians and politicians parading around like tough generals. Real toughness is standing up to the military industrial complex. "

"Real patriotism doesn't require us to sacrifice the body parts and minds and marriages of our troops so that we can go pick winners and losers and tribal disputes in Central Asia."

"America is a great nation but great societies have fallen before by foolishly engaging in costly adventurism," Gaetz said.