The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has released a report warning U.S. development programs in Afghanistan are unlikely to survive a U.S. withdrawal. The warning comes as veteran diplomat Ryan Crocker appeared before the committee in his confirmation hearings to become the new U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan.

Ryan Crocker: “There is no intention that I see in any of my consultations here — I certainly don’t come with such an intention — to produce the perfect society. We can’t. But I think by judicious use of resources and conditions-based redeployments and transfers of responsibility, as will begin this July, we can get to that sustainable stability.”

Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana was among those to question U.S. spending in Afghanistan.

Sen. Richard Lugar: “Despite 10 years of investment and attempts to better understand the culture and the region’s actors, we remain in a cycle that produces relative progress but fails to deliver a secure political or military resolution. In Afghanistan, measuring success according to relative progress has very little meaning. Undoubtedly, we will make some progress when we are spending more than $100 billion per year in that country.”