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John McCain: It was a failure and it was doomed to failure because we knew that without the battlefield favoring Bashar al-Assad, he…

On the recordMarch 25, 2014
It was a failure and it was doomed to failure because we knew that without the battlefield favoring Bashar al-Assad, he was not going to negotiate his departure.
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John McCain
Republican · Arizona

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McCain criticizes the Geneva process for failing to remove Assad from power.

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