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On the recordMay 16, 2016
Is it time to start thinking about the reality that perhaps Syria, as we have known it, its existing borders as a unitary nation, that the fact is it may never again be possible to bring all of these communities to share a common nation given what has transpired over the last few years?
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Marco Rubio
Republican · Florida

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Rubio questions the viability of Syria's current borders and national unity.

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