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On the recordJuly 22, 2014
What is the damage down to our alliances when we make such silly-looking deployments?
Said by
Mike Rogers
Republican · Alabama

Editor's note · Context

Rogers critiques the effectiveness of U.S. military deployments in Europe.

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