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On the recordMarch 14, 2017
Deploying large numbers of American military forces onto foreign soil to nation-build vice accomplishing a defined mission is counter-productive.
Said by
Tom Cotton
Republican · Arkansas

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Critiquing the strategy of nation-building in military operations.

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