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On the recordSeptember 28, 2016
This idea that there was a magical moment in 2012 where we could have parachuted arms to the Syrian rebels and they would have overrun Assad is not true.
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Chris Murphy
Democratic · Connecticut

Editor's note · Context

Murphy disputes the notion that U.S. intervention could have easily changed the Syrian conflict.

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