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Antony Blinken: “We were right to end the war. We were right not to send a third generation of Americans to Afghanistan to fight and die…”

On the recordSeptember 13, 2021
We were right to end the war. We were right not to send a third generation of Americans to Afghanistan to fight and die there.
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Antony Blinken
Democratic · District of Columbia

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Blinken defends the decision to end U.S. involvement in Afghanistan.

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