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On the recordMay 7, 2017
To view foreign policy as simply transactional is more dangerous than its proponents realize. Depriving the oppressed of a beacon of hope could lose us the world we have built and thrived in.
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John McCain
Republican · Arizona

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McCain warns against a purely transactional approach to foreign policy.

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