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Susan Rice: “So we pay a cost from inaction. And we pay a cost if we have to act alone.”

On the recordJanuary 14, 2009
So we pay a cost from inaction. And we pay a cost if we have to act alone.
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Susan Rice
Democratic · District of Columbia

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Susan E. Rice discusses the costs of U.S. inaction and unilateral action.

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