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John McCain: To view foreign policy as simply transactional is more dangerous than its proponents realize. Depriving the oppressed of…

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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