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On the recordApril 24, 2013
It is said often by the proponents of foreign aid that it is the most poor and dispossessed that become terrorists and wage war against us.
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Brad Sherman
Democratic · California
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Sherman questions the narrative linking poverty and terrorism in relation to foreign aid.

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