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On the recordFebruary 5, 2018
What we have seen is--and I think it was Mr. Laghari, you brought up one of the shortfalls of our foreign policy and most grave is us not understanding the local cultures, tribe mentality, or the power structures that we don't have here and we have seen this repeated in Afghanistan.
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Ted Yoho
Republican · Florida

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Yoho discusses the failures of U.S. foreign policy in understanding local cultures.

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