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Tom Cotton: We got stuck in Iraq and Afghanistan because we cared about the political outcomes of those countries afterwards.

On the recordMarch 14, 2017
We got stuck in Iraq and Afghanistan because we cared about the political outcomes of those countries afterwards.
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Tom Cotton
Republican · Arkansas

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Cotton discusses the importance of political outcomes in military engagements.

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