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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen: “I have been concerned that we are allowing the post-2014 residual force size also to be decided politically, and that is…”

On the recordDecember 10, 2013
I have been concerned that we are allowing the post-2014 residual force size also to be decided politically, and that is purely numbers-driven rather than focused on the task and what is needed.
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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Republican · Florida

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Ros-Lehtinen criticizes political decision-making affecting U.S. military presence in Afghanistan.

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