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Chris Murphy: “Maybe, just maybe every bad thing that happens in the world is not a fault of failed U.S. policy.”

On the recordSeptember 28, 2016
Maybe, just maybe every bad thing that happens in the world is not a fault of failed U.S. policy.
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Chris Murphy
Democratic · Connecticut

Editor's note · Context

Murphy suggests that not all global issues can be attributed to U.S. policy failures.

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